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
'Wissellii' is a vigorous evergreen conifer making a medium-sized tree, narrowly conical in habit, with short, crispy sprays of dark blue-green foliage, and small but conspicuous crimson male cones in spring