Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Nana Aurea' is a dwarf, loose, pyramidal, very slow growing selection of Hinoki cypress with dense, irregular, compact, golden-yellow foliage, mixed with creamy yellow and some green. After 10 years of growth, a specimen will be considered mature at 3 to 4 feet (1 - 1.3 m) tall and 2-thirds as wide, a growth rate of 3 to 4 inches (7.5 - 10 cm) per year.
This is a very old cultivar that originated in Japan long ago. French botanist, Élie-Abel Carrière, Paris, first described it in botanical literature in the mid-1860s. In the Latin language, nana aurea translates into "dwarf gold."
