It is a small tree, reaching 15-25 m tall, with feathery foliage in moderately flattened sprays, usually somewhat glaucous blue-green in colour. The leaves are scale-like, 2-4mm long, and produced on somewhat flattened shoots. The cones are globose, 4-8mm diameter, with 6-10 scales.
It is of some importance in horticulture, with several named cultivars of varying crown shape, growth rates and foliage colour having been selected for garden planting.
Hinoki false cypress is an evergreenconifer with attractive soft and stringy reddish brown bark, and drooping flat frondlike branchlets bearing small scalelike leaves.
The scalelike leaves of Hinoki false cypress are borne in pairs of two unequal sizes and shapes, and this is one way to tell Hinoki false cypress from the otherwise similar Sawara false cypress (Chamaecyparis pisifera) which has all of its adult leaves the same size and shape.
Chamaecyparis obtusa, the Hinoki false cypress is native to southern Japan and the island of Taiwan.
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