A very popular evergreen shrub noted for its gracefully weeping golden foliage, Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Filifera Aurea’ (Sawara Cypress) is a dense, semi-dwarf conifer that slowly grows into a broad cone of open habit.

‘Filifera Aurea’ is noted for its drooping yellow foliage. This is a dense, semi-dwarf, evergreen shrub that typically grows as a broad cone. It is slow growing, often reaching only 6-7’ tall in 20 years, but may eventually reach 15-20’ tall in optimum conditions.

'Filifera Aurea' is an old cultivar of C. pisifera with tightly compressed needles wrapped around pendulous branchlets hence the name, 'Threadleaf', to describe the appearance of the foliage. There is also a cultivar, 'Filifera', with the same type of foliage that is a nice quiet green.

This is a filifera-type plant with stringy, whip-like, golden yellow foliage. It retains good yellow color throughout the year. Cultivar name comes from the reportedly similarity of a small shrub to a mop head. RHS lists Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Filifera Nana Aurea' as a synonym of this plant.

Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Filifera Aurea Nana' is a hardy evergreen conifer forms a delicate, golden lacey mound in the garden. It is lower growing (3-4' height with an equal spread) than some of it's cousins, such as the Gold Mop Cypress Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Gold Mop' which grows to.