Dwarf Golden Hinoki Cypress 'Nana Lutea'
Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Nana Lutea’ · a gold mounding Hinoki cypress
A slow, dwarf hinoki with dense fans of golden-yellow foliage that glow all year in an irregular, upright globe, lovely in Asian and rock gardens, foundations and pots. Gold is best in sun, lime green in shade; give it afternoon shade where summers are hot, shelter from wind and moist, well-drained soil.
- Mature size
- 4 × 3 ft
- 1.2 × 0.9 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 4a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to moist
Dwarf Golden Hinoki Cypress 'Nana Lutea' at its mature size
A mature Dwarf Golden Hinoki Cypress 'Nana Lutea' grows to about 4 ft tall and 3 ft wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension, conifersociety.org, landscapeplants.oregonstate.edu.
Through the year
What Dwarf Golden Hinoki Cypress 'Nana Lutea' looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Year-round
Dense, congested fans of bright golden-yellow scale foliage with downturned tips.
Growing Dwarf Golden Hinoki Cypress 'Nana Lutea'
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Good for
- Hedge, small space, foundation planting, and specimen
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Japan and Taiwan
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Dwarf Golden Hinoki Cypress 'Nana Lutea', that’s about 3 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Dwarf Golden Hinoki Cypress 'Nana Lutea' in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other cypresses
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Dwarf Hinoki Cypress 'Nana Gracilis'
Golden Mop Threadleaf CypressAll drawn to the same scale.