Taiwania cryptomerioides

A magnificent conifer from N Burma, N Vietnam, SW China and Taiwan, where it makes trees up to 50m high, though a much smaller thing here. The largest so far in the UK is 21m tall, though it is rarely seen. A very conical tree with drooping branchlets densely clothed in glaucous-green sickle shaped foliage in the style of Cryptomeria. For a sheltered site.