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Cunninghamia fortunei 'Green Grizzley'

so: Camellia Forest (online catalog 2001)

Cunninghamia konishii 'Coolwijn's Compact' ('Coolwin's Dwarf', 'Koolwyn's Dwarf')

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Atlanta Botanical Garden. July 2003. A tiny and true dwarf in this towering genus.

ha: true dwarf, bun-shaped to globose, very short internodes. Might be confused with a pygmy Cryptomeria from a distance.
ll: needles very reduced to .60-1.0cm long. You'll note one possibly reverting shoot on the photo above.
so: Kenwith Nursery (Gordon Haddow) UK 2002
li: RHS HORTICULTURAL DATABASE 2002

Cunninghamia konishii 'Little Leo'

ha: globose to bun-shaped, dwarf, 1.5 in. growth per year
ch: 8
or: Australia
so: Kenwith Nursery (Gordon Haddow) UK 2002

Cunninghamia lanceolata 'Aurea'

lc: yellow
ns, so: listed by Iseli Nursery c. 1983. We have not seen it listed since. The Latin name is surely not legitimate.

Cunninghamia lanceolata 'Bánó' ('Compacta')

ha: compact, tree-sized but reduced vigor and scale
ch: more cold hardy in Europe than some clones
ns: the epithet 'Compacta' is illegitimate being traceable only 1966 when Barabits used it.
or: Bano Forestry Exper. Station, Kamon, Hungary c. 1955 as seedling
li: Lewis, J. 1989. The intern. conifer reg. RHS, London. p. 62

Cunninghamia lanceolata 'Chason's Gift'

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Cunninghamia lanceolata 'Chason's Gift' is more compact, neat, single-stemmed, and easy to root from cuttings. It is more in scale with most gardens and should replace the species in most applications in the future.

htz: 40 ft. tall (15 years)
ha: more densely conical to pyramidal than species typical, compact, forming a strong leader
prop: roots high percentages from cuttings.
or: Johnson's Nursery, Willard NC USA before 1994
li: Amer. Nur. 180(1): 174 (1994)

Cunninghamia lanceolata 'Compacta' = 'Bánó

 

Cunninghamia lanceolata 'Dwarf'

ha: dwarf
in: Woodlanders Nursery, Aiken SC USA c. 1999

Cunninghamia lanceolata 'Glauca'

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Biltmore Gardens, Asheville, NC USA. Spring 2003. There are much larger 'Glauca' examples around but most are split, ratty, and ugly with only the very tips blue. Frankly, most are quite unattractive and have not been pruned in years. This is the best of  intact, dense, fully colored, and neat trees in the US I have seen. It shows what the cultivar can become though I am inclned to think we should be growing 'Samurai' instead. LCH.

lc: glaucous blue, new growth very rich blue, later becoming blue-green, green the second year. It is never
lc: so blue is a modern blue spruce but the grandeur of this species makes up for it. It needs to be kept compact to keep the number
lc: blue young shoots numerous and closely spaced.
id: there are intermediates to the "species green" found in seedlings. Only the very distinct blue variants
id: should be given this name.
ch: has a reputation for being more cold hardy than the species. We have no firm data on this yet.
li: Knight and Perry. 1850. Syn. Conif. p. 45 (C. sinensis var. glauca, nomen nudum (name only))
li: Carriere, E. 1855. Tr. Gen. Conif. p. 171 (first description)

Cunninghamia lanceolata 'Glauca Pendula'

ha: gracefully weeping
lc: silvery-blue, more glaucous
li: Dallimore, W. and A.B. Jackson. 1948. Hand. Conif. p. 275
ns: it is no longer in cultivation and has not been since the 60's or earlier.

Cunninghamia lanceolata 'Greer's Dwarf' (10/02)

ht: 1 ft. tall x 3 ft. wide (10 years)
ha: dwarf
or: presumably Greer Gardens OR USA
so: Stanley & Sons Nursery (online catalog 2002)

Cunninghamia lanceolata 'Lemon Lime'(10/02)

so: Stanley & Sons Nursery (online catalog 2002), name only, presumably a chartreuse or yellowish foliage?

Cunninghamia lanceolata 'Little Leo' = C. konishii 'Little Leo'

 

Cunninghamia lanceolata 'Raraflora'

ns: a listed clonal name for something offered by Raraflora Nur. PA USA before the 1980's. Does not seem to
ns: be in collections today.

Cunninghamia lanceolata 'Samurai'

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Raulston Arboretum. Spring 2003. A nice blue cultivar.

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Atlanta Botanical Garden. July 2003. Labeled as 'Samurai no Kobushi' but having the same stunning coloration as other plants sold as 'Samurai'. Our only question is that this plant shows no dominant leader yet and the example at the JC Raulston coniferetum is a very distinct tree.

lc: new growth pinkish or red by one report. A plant at the Raulston Arboretum has more glaucous
lc: blue new growth much like 'Glauca' but richer and paler powder blue. We are checking it to see if pink tints appear in cold weather.
so: Camellia Forest (online catalog 2001)