Chinese coffin tree

T. cryptomerioides is a columnar to conical evergreen tree that may reach heights in excess of 50m in the wild but will grow much shorter in cultivation. The treehas dark grey-brown bark that exfoliates in strips and slender, drooping branchlets with blue-green, awl-shaped to sickle-shaped, sharply-pointed juvenile leaves that become scale-like as the tree ages. Mature trees produce cylindrical cones to 12mm long