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
'Lanei Aurea' is a columnar evergreen conifer forming a medium-sized tree. Foliage bright golden-yellow, in lax open sprays, retaining its colour well through year