Backside of Leaves of False Arborvitae

This picture show you the backside of the leaves of False Arborvitae. As you can see the backside of leave is white. So you can easily identify this plant from other similar plants.

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Leaves of False Arborviate

False Arborviate is sometime treated as shrub in USA because this tree was developed in many ways and created ornamental purpose shrub from original Japanese False Arborviate. In Japan we call this tree as “Hiba” (檜葉) and grows up to 36m (120 feet) height and used many way such as for housing woods or for kitchen goods because this tree is durable against insects, molds and water. So this tree is very useful and important tree in Japan.

False Holly Tea Olive – Sasaba

These are leaves of Sasaba False Holly Tea Olive. This tree grow slowly up to 3m (10 feet) in the area of partial shade.

Sasaba is a Japanese word and means bamboo leaves in Japan. The leaves of Sasaba False Holly Tea Olive form long and spiny at the ends of them so the name of this false holly become Sasaba.

Goshiki False Holly Tea Olive

Goshiki False Holly Tea Olive is of course a kind of False Holly Tea Olive. The word “Goshiki” is a Japanese word and it means 5 colors. This is evergreen shrub.

Young Leaves of False Holly Tea Olive

These leaves are young leaves of False Holly Tea Olive. The adult leaves are less spiny and smoother edges. This evergreen shrub is good for as edge tree.