Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Nana' is a very nice, slow-growing, flat-topped dwarf selection of Sawara cypress with densely packed, fan-shaped, recurved branchlets. Foliage is dark green adaxially with glaucous undersides. After 10 years of growth, a mature specimen will measure around 12 inches (30 cm) tall and 5 inches (12 cm) wide, a rate of growth of an inch (2.5 cm) or less per year.
This is a very old cultivar, first described in 1887 by Ludwig Beissner, Bonn, Germany in his pioneering conifer text, Handbuch der Coniferen-Benennung .
