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
'Grayswood Pillar' is a narrowly columnar evergreen conifer making a small tree to 8m, with dense grey-green foliage on short erect branches, seldom damaged by snow