Chamaecyparis lawsoniana

Port Orford cedar or Lawson cypress is a species of conifer in the cypress or Cupressaceae family. It is native to Oregon and northwestern California, and grows from sea level up to 1,500 m in the valleys of the Klamath Mountains. It can reach up to 60 m tall.

Close to a hundred named cultivars of Lawson cypress have been developed for garden planting with varying crown shape, growth rates and foliage colour.

• Leaves are in flat sprays and are scale-like, 3–5 mm long, and arranged in decussate pairs (intersecting to produce an 'x'), blue-green with a white band at the base of each scale.
• Species is monoecious. Female seed cones are globose (round), 7–14 mm in diameter, green and maturing to brown; males pollinators are 3-4 mm long dark red and at the ends of tips.
• Bark is reddish brown and fibrous in vertical strips.