I planted a couple of 'Golden Mop' gold-thread cypresses last June on the north side of the house. They are not yellow at all. I noticed they started losing their color in the fall. They are dark ...

The leaves are blue-green, not gold. One other possibility is the dwarf goldthread cypress 'Gold Mop.' It's in the Chamaecyparis genus but a different species from what you've been trying.

Now, in a similar incident, customs officials at Chennai International Airport seized gold paste worth about Rs 70 lakh hidden in a cleaning mop on September 29. The gold paste weighing 1.811 kg ...