Name that tree (!)

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I'm trying to ID a tree that's growing up through my hedge at an odd angle.

I was tempted to get rid of it but it's evergreen and provides a handy diagonal screen across the houses to the rear once the leaves have fallen from its deciduous friends.

It also has pretty white/ cream flowers (small, numerous!) in early spring.

Photos to follow

I thought of juniper but you said no berries

No weeping going on The leaves grow upwards

are the leaves aromatic?

Is it like when these people abseiled down a crevasse in Australia and found a tree that everyone thought was extinct ?

Coleonema album ??? grows to about 4-5 feet ? Do the flowers look like this?

I think you're going to have to post again in spring with a photo of the flowers!

Oooh gatekeeper that does look a lot like it...

Hi Gatekeeper, that looks like the closest yet but the leaves aren't quite right. No particular smell when I rub the leaves.

There are loads of mini brown branches from which the green needles grow.

Kr1stina I love the idea of a long-extinct tree growing in my suburban garden

Errol I'll try again when it starts flowering!

I'm not making it up . It was found in 1994. People who go to visit the site have tea towels tied round their heads . Honest

www.wollemipine.com/news/The_Jurassic_Tree_And_The_Lost_Valley.php

I can't help but I'm fascinated to know. Are you sure it's not a rosemary bush that's got out of control and taken over the tree?

Giant scentless rosemary 'album'?

Pahaha! Love the giant rosemary suggestion. I've raised a colossal kitchen basil this year but I promise my rosemary bush is nice and neat

Off to investigate Kr1stina's link..!

I need to know now :) - my first thought was some sort of yew as well.

It looks like a giant tree asparagus.

(I'm just making this up now).

Does it look like any of these?

knpr.org/programs/norms-favorite-desert-trees

How about Ozothamnus rosmarifolius? That has bluey-green leaves though. Or there's O. ledifolius with green leaves. Neither are supposed to grow as tall as yours but maybe it's scrambling up to reach the light?

Can you remember what the white flowers look like haveyouseenher? Are there sprays of them, like a haze of white?

I'm wondering if it could be some kind of tamarisk?

Hi all, I'm going to catch up tonight (!)

From memory the flowers are tiny creamy white balls??

Thank you for all the help and interest

Are the tiny creamy balls on the ends of the branches ?

Is it this ?

Are you sure that some of the little balls aren't still there on the end of the branches? They might have changed colour so they are less noticeable .

Could it possibly be Melaleuca linariifolia? www.flowerpictures.net/flower_database/h_flowers/honey_myrtle.html AKA Snow-in-summer.

Is that Cryptomeria Kristina?

If you could give us a picture from further back, so we can see the form of the tree more, maybe that would help?? (Appreciate this might not be possible!)

There's a plant called melaleuca that has rosemary-like foliage and white bottle-brush type flowers... I am way out of my comfort zone here, this is proper exotics to me!

Oooh, x-post with Nan!

Oops forgot to post name, it is indeed cryptomeria var. Elegans Aurea

I know it's a wild guess because op doesn't think it's a conifer