https://conifersociety.org/conifers/cedrus-deodara-silver-mist/

it appears your leader far exceeded the claimed annual growth rate ....

that has to be some other plant

ron

Wow. Mine are much wider and shorter. That narrow shape is very attractive, though.

It’s a really striking tree in person that’s what caught my eye at the store, in fact there was a second identical tree sitting right next to it at hd, I may go back and get the other one also

the picture & discription on the database show a completely different form

THAT HAS TO BE SOME OTHER PLANT

NO ?

The color checks out though, in fact with some moonlight the tips have a glowing effect. Its quite different than the divinely and feelin blue I already have.

Anyone in Northern Virginia that wants the other one at store message for a photo or the location.

Around here it also seems box stores have stepped their game up some as well over the past few years.
I'm thinking it was trained up as well originally and liked it. Maybe scion was a leader...
Whatever the case its a beauty!!!

Vigor of scions can vary with rootstocks used, so that grafted stock of certain quite dwarf cultivars grows out of character on a routine basis. All the 'Nana Lutea' Hinoki that produce slender, pointed, sometimes 18' trees for instance.

It appears some discounted material from overstocked grower's fields, during the later years of markedly reduced retail sales of woody plants has been getting sold to box stores. Items that the giants wouldn't buy the rest of the time.