Xanthocyparis vietnamensis RHS Award of Merit Winners sometimes reaching 4" wide

sometimes reaching 4" wide

that's also widely grown as a summer annual where it isn't reliably winter hardy

toilet-shaped spathe surrounding the violet Old Faithful-like geyser that we knew the identity was correct

Since these are seedlings

Xanthocyparis vietnamensis RHS Award of Merit Winners sometimes reaching 4" wide(aka: Callitropsis, Hesperocyparis, Cupressus vietnamensis) Xanthocyparis vietnamensis is a distant cousin of the Western US Callitropsis nootkatensis with an identity crisis. Vietnam cedar is a monotypic (there's only one) genus, discovered in 1999, growing on the karst limestone mountains in the H Giang Province in northern Vietnam. Since there are less than 1000 plants in the wild, Xanthocyparis vietnamensis is one of the worlds' rarest and most