Description
Small, compact, slow growing evergreen shrub, conifer (H up to 1,5 m, W 1,0 m), crown broad, flattened spherical, branched. Needles sickle-shaped (6-12 mm), stiff, dark green, in winter brown-red. Grows better in poor soils (wood matures better) and higher air-humidity. Young plants susceptible to cold and dry wind. It resembles a miniature palm tree.