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What is this variety of Weeping Alaskan Cedar Called

11 years ago

I need help in identifying a certain variety of Weeping Alaskan Cedar. There are 6 pictures attached. The are all apparently called Weeping Alaskan Cedars or Chamaecyparis (renamed Cupressaceae apparently) Nootkatensis. The top 3 and bottom 2 on the left are all the same variety of this tree (the top leftmost pic is a close-up view of the one to the right of it), whereas the the picture on bottom row on the far right seems to be another variety.

You'll notice that the first five pictures are Weeping Alaskan Cedars of different ages (the first two being of the same tree). 3 of the 4 are actually in my neighbourhood but the owners do not know where they came from. They are fuller, wider and having cascading branches rather than the less dense, narrower and more pendulus branches in the last picture. Yet all have the same general name. When I google for Weeping Alaskan Cedar some look like the first five pictures, some like the last one, but they are all referred to as with or without the 'Pendula' suffix. When I've gone to nurseries and ask for a Weeping Alaskan Cedar or Cedar 'Pendula' they all look like the last one but that's not the variety I want.

Through online research I have found varieties of this tree as follows (the following words appear after the 'Weeping Alaskan Cedar' or 'Chamaecyparis/Cupressaceae Nootkatensis' name).

Pendula
Variegata
Strict Weeping
Blue Weeping, also referred to as Glauca Pendula or Glauca
Aurea
Jubilee
Green Arrow
Yellow

Does anyone know which variety the one I want is? Or, is Weeping Alaskan Cedar with or without the suffix Pendula simply used interchangeably for what seems to be 2 different varieties?

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