Barabits cultivars Crypromeria japonica ÂBarabits Compact Published 1995 Mesterházy Zsolt in the Conifer Treasury Breeder/Found 1967 Barabits E. HUN Introduced Alsótekeres Nurs. Siófok HUN Description Of seed a slower growing juvenile clone. Strong bronze autumn colour. Photo documentation Photo author me Cryptomeris japonica ÂBarabits Gold Published 1995 Mesterházy Zsolt in the Conifer Treasury Breeder/Found 1967 Barabits E. HUN Introduced Alsótekeres Nurs. Siófok HUN W. Linssen, Beaxem HOL in Windsor Great Park GBR as /Hungarian Gold Description Photo documentation Photo author me Photo author me Photo author Esveld HOL As ÂHungarian Gold (named in the Windsor Great Park) Photo author Esveld HOL There is yet without photo some more. Maybe Edwin or Clément could have one? Cryptomeria japonica 'Scarabantia' 1995 Mesterházy Zsolt in the Conifer Treasury 1985 Barabits E. HUN A very narrow column Cryptomeria japonica 'Barabits' 1995 Mesterházy Zsolt in the Conifer Treasury 1975 Barabits E. HUN WitchÂs broom of an old C. japonica specimen in the Sopronhorpács Arboretum HUN Zsolt

After getting a cryptomeria to add to a large pot ,'Spirilater Falcata', I found another one to plant in the ground, 'Cristata'-it will be in a semi-protected southern corner, near a wooden privacy fence-I'm going to move a quince that has not done well, pot up for the winter all the elephant ears that are doing extremely well, & move a banana. The 'Cristata' is 6', very narrow, w/ lots of new growth-it's beautiful...I'm going to be working this in w/ my 'tropicalesque' plantings across the walkway-this is my best southern spot where I have bananas (too big, will move), figs (also too vigorous this year, will probably move), windmill palms (being shaded out by other tropicals) & a few oddballs-jujube, sabal texensis, cordyline, hedychium. agave, setcresea,mandevilla.... Are there any of these plants that would not look odd near a cryptomeria? Right now, the existing planting that I will clear out has elephant ears (3), sabal texensis, dwarf Cavendish banana, lantana,& plectranthus, w/ a passiflora covering the fence....

I'm curious - what's the tallest Sekkan Sugi anyone has ever seen? (not using '', because this just means yellow cedar in Japanese, apparently) I'm guessing botann's was rather large but webshots has gone haywire. NCSU has one that's 36', can't be that old since JC brought all that kind of stuff in around the late 70s-mid 80s. This page amusingly says 10' for mature height, while showing an obviously contradictory picture: Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.greatplantpicks.org/plantlists/view/469 This post was edited by davidrt28 on Sat, Feb 9, 13 at 21:44

Very beautiful when responding to a sheltered planting site but often a bit rough looking when conditions aren't as favorable. Otherwise I've noticed specimens at the larger and older end of the scale for our area starting to green out, unfortunately. This is a recurring phenomenon with yellow foliage forms of cypress family conifers, with those comparative few that remain instead fully colored standing out for doing this.