Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco, it is a trees to more than 20 m tall; trunk to 1 m, bark reddish brown to light grayish brown, thin, flaking in long strips; crown ovoid-pyramidal when young, broadly rounded or irregular when old. Leaves 1-3 mm, apex bluntly pointed; facial leaves rhomboid, with a conspicuous, linear, glandular groove at center abaxially; lateral leaves overlapping facial ones, boat-shaped, ridged, apex slightly incurved. Pollen cones yellowish green, ovoid, 2-3 mm. Seed cones when immature bluish green, sub globose, 3 mm in diam., when ripe reddish brown, sub ovoid, 1.5-2(-2.5) × 1-1.8 cm, proximal 2 fertile cone scales 2-seeded, distal 2 fertile scales 1-seeded. Seeds grayish brown or purplish brown, ovoid or sub ellipsoid, 5-7 × 3-4 mm, slightly ridged. Pollination Mar-Apr. Seed maturity Oct.
Flowering in: All year.
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