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
'Ellwood's Gold' is a slow-growing, columnar, evergreen conifer making a large shrub of compact habit. Young foliage yellow at the tips, grey-green within the bush