RETINOSPORA 



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Retinospora (604) — filicoides — is of slow growth, wi^>^ aense, fern- 

 like branchlets. The most peculiar of all the Hinoki Cypresses is San- 

 der's Retinospora (605) — ericoides; it is a small dense shrub with 

 blunt stiff spreading leaves forming four rows on the stems; in color it 

 is the brightest bluish green of any of the coniferous plants. 



Chamiecyparis pisifera has but few dwarf forms with fan-shaped spray; 

 the tendency is more apt to be toward linear spreading leaves. Thread- 

 branched Retinospora (606)-r-filifera — has peculiar elongated thread- 

 like growth of twigs with distant sharp-pointed leaves ; a low tree or 

 subprostrate shrub ; of this there is a glaucous-leaved form, glaiica. 



Fig. 607. — Common Juniper. 



Fig. 608. — Curved-branched Juniper. 



The varieties of Pea-fruited Retinosporas with longer and more 

 spreading leaves are among the moat popular and beautiful of the ever- 

 greens of Japan. Feathery Pea-fruited Retinospora — Chamgecyparis 

 pisifera plumosa — has awl-shaped spreading leaves dark green in color and 

 is often called Green Retinospora. The colored forms of this are: 

 Speckled Retinospora — plumosa albo-picta, — with the tips of the 

 branchlets cream-white; Creamy Retinospora — plum6sa arg^ntea, — 

 with the whole of the young spray cream-white, becoming green the fol- 

 lowing season ; and Golden Retinospora — plumosa aurea, — with all 

 the terminal shoots light golden yellow in the spring and changing to a 

 deep green later. Besides the Feathery Retinosporas, there is a variety 

 with linear loaves in pairs spreading squarely from the stems, of almost a 

 silvery color, Silver Retinospora — Chamiecyparis pisifera squarrosa. 



