Blue spruce

Blue spruce is only adapted in the higher elevations of Arkansas, and even then it suffers from our heat and humidity.

Blue Spruce (Picea pungens f. glauca)
Colorado Blue Spruce
Spruces are evergreen, coniferous trees with a narrow, conical habit. They are an important source of wood pulp and are very popular as Christmas trees.

Picea pungens
(Colorado Blue Spruce)
[Engelm.] Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinatae
Family: Pinaceae
Family Description: Pine Key Characteristics: usually 25-40 m tall; dense whorls of flattened Sprays, overall appearance is pyramidal and dense.

GENERAL: A widely planted ornamental in Pennsylvania, Blue spruce is native to the Rocky Mountains at elevations of 5,900'-10,000'. Slow growing and long lived, specimens can reach 150' high.

Picea pungens 'Procumbens' (Colorado blue spruce)
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Blue Spruce
Blue spruce trees have thin, rather scaly bark and pendulous cones. The needles are at nearly right angles to the branch and have extremely sharp tips. Blue spruces mature to a 50- to 75-foot height with a spread of about 25 feet.

blue spruce Pinaceae Picea pungens Engelm.   symbol: PIPU
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14. Blue Spruce/ introduced/ Picea pungens
leaves
powdery blue foliage.
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Sedum 'Blue Spruce'
We're partial to plants with silvery-blue foliage, so 'Blue Spruce' is a favorite. The blue color of the foliage is a great accent to the yellow summertime blooms.
Name: Sedum rupestre 'Blue Spruce' ...

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Blue Spruce ( Picea pungens )
Blue Stallion Meserve Holly ( Ilex meserveae )
Blue Standard Korean Fir ( Abies koreana ) ...

Colorado Blue Spruce is the state tree of Colorado and Utah and is found in magnificent stands in the mountainous parts of both states and in the Rockies of Idaho, Arizona, and New Mexico.

Colorado Blue Spruce
(Picea pungens)
30 to 60 feet tall and 10 to 20 feet wide. Slow to medium growth rate.

Usage
Blue spruce is most commonly used as an individual specimen tree but would be an attractive grove or windbreak tree.
Features
The striking blue colored foliage has made the blue spruce a popular landscape tree in the United States.

Prostrate Colorado Blue Spruce [English]: Picea pungens Engelm. 'Glauca Prostrata'
Prostrate Correa [English]: Correa decumbens
Prostrate Dallis Grass [English]: Paspalum pauciciliatum
Prostrate Desert Phlox [English]: Phlox austromontana subsp.

Picea pungens: Colorado spruce, Colorado blue spruce, blue spruce - a blue-gray to blue-green tree, it can grow to 150 feet and survives at altitudes up to 11,000 ft.! It is the most widely grown spruce in North America.

Picea pungens (Blue Spruce, Colorado Spruce)
Picea sitchensis (Sitka Spruce, Menzies spruce)
Pinus albicaulis (Whitebark Pine)
Pinus aristata (Bristlecone Pine)
Pinus attenuata (Knobcone Pine)
Pinus banksiana (Jack Pine)
Pinus brutia ssp.

Weeping Blue Spruce (Picea pungens 'Pendula')
Weeping Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis)
Weeping Chinese Banyan (Ficus benjamina 'Variegata')
Weeping Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus 'Pendula')
Weeping European Larch (Larix decidua 'Weeping Larch') ...

See a specimen of oriental spruce in the lawn north of the Old Union between the coast redwood and the Colorado blue spruce, where it also can be conveniently compared with the Norway spruce on the south side of the Old Union.

This is a better choice for our maritime climate than Colorado blue spruce. The taller Colorado blue spruce become, the uglier they are. You know CBS, the blue conifer I am talking about?

‘Baby Blue Eyes' [Baby Blue Eyes Colorado Blue Spruce]
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‘Fastigiata' [Fastigiata Colorado Blue Spruce]
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‘Fat Albert' [Fat Albert Colorado Blue Spruce]
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Picea pungens Glauca group (Blue spruce): Blue needles, more prickly than other trees, holds its needles better than the Norway spruce.
Abies koreana (Korean fir): Dark green, slightly curling needles. Excellent needle-holding quality.

Description:
Hoops Blue Spruce is perhaps the most glaucous of all the Blue Spruce cultivars, having a dense, pyramidal, silvery-white to silvery-blue appearance.

A more complex grouping partners the deciduous corkscrew hazel-a shrub that reveals its contorted, woody tendrils in winter-with the low-mound form of globe blue spruce. Powder blue during the growing season, it deepens to steel blue in cold weather.

Picea pungens, Colorado Blue spruce
Pinus lambertiana, Sugar Pine
Pinus monticola Western White Pine
Pinus radiata, Monterey Pine
Pseudotsuga spp., Douglas-fir
Quercus garryana, Oregon White Oak
Quercus lobata, California White Oak ...

Picea pungens 'Glauca' Colorado blue spruce
evergreen, average care
created by chief cultivator
zones: 2a thru 8b ...

Colorado Blue Spruce (P. pungens)
Mugo Pine (Pinus mugo)
Austrian Pine (Pinus nigra) ...

The needle-like leaves attached to the common spruce trees are used to hold in moisture. The blue spruce is widely planted in yards because of its beautiful silver-blue foliage.

Picea glauca, white spruce, quite tolerant dry conditions, and Picea abies, Norway spruce, of heavier winds; both grow in zones 2-6. Picea pungens glauca, the Colorado blue spruce, will not grow true from seed, ...

Perhaps more accurately a variety (similar to the Colorado Blue Spruce (Picea pungens var. glauca)). Seedlings grown from blue-needled plants will exhibit a range of needle colors from blue to green.

The dense succulent foliage is green to blue-green throughought the year, with reddish hues in winter, & having a general look of thick short conifer needles. A more strongly blue-green variant S. rupestra glauca is sold as 'Blue Spruce' because ...

Colors can "effect" the space to give different perceptions. Cool colors like blue can actually make a space look larger. Plants like evergreens can offer your yard a feeling of largeness - Blue spruce and Alberta pine are good examples.

Numerous spruces are cultivated as ornamentals; the most popular North American garden spruce is the frosty- or silvery-blue-needled Colorado blue spruce (P. pungens).

Foliage glaucousness varies within a species the same way as it does with blue spruces and many other trees. Frost resistance is subject to a high level of genetic variation.

See also: Spruce, Pink, Fir, Birch, Beech