First, you can look at the leaves. Their leaves are actually different. Platycladus orientalis leaves have a feeling of being squashed. It is particularly uneven and imperfect, but it has a round feeling in the cypress leaves. The whole leaf looks full and full, so it gives us a different feeling.
In addition, you can tell them by their colors. The color of cypress leaves is crisp, which is the authentic green at first glance. But the color of our Platycladus orientalis leaves is dark, especially dark. Not that green, but there is a dark green inside. You can see this from the color.
Platycladus orientalis, also known as Platycladus orientalis, Platycladus orientalis, Platycladus orientalis, Platycladus orientalis, Plantagenet, Platycladus orientalis, Pinus densiflora, Platycladus orientalis, Bai Qing and Platycladus orientalis. The leaves are small, scaly and sharp, and cling to the branchlets, but on the larger branches, the tips of the leaves are not close to each other and protrude like thorns, and the leaves are yellow-green or gray-green.
Platycladus orientalis leaves, alias Platycladus orientalis, evergreen tree, 20m high, DBH1m. The bark is thin, light grayish brown, longitudinally split into strips, and the branchlets are straight and arranged in a plane.