Chamaecyparis are evergreen trees, usually of narrowly ovoid or columnar outline, with much-branched sprays of small scale-like leaves, and small, globose cones; tiny red male cones are conspicuous in a few cultivars
'Aurea Densa' is a slow-growing medium-sized evergreen shrub of compact conical outline. Foliage golden-yellow, in short, dense sprays