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
'Minima Aurea' is a dwarf evergreen conifer making a small shrub of conical habit, with golden-yellow foliage held in dense, mostly vertical sprays