Colorado blue spruce

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.

Picea pungens 'Procumbens' (Colorado blue spruce)
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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.
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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.

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.

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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Serbian Spruce is sometimes used as a substitute for Colorado Blue Spruce, although the silver-blue needle color is more subdued and most intense in winter, it is a little slower growing, and it is usually more narrow in growth habit.

One of the trees one hardly ever encounters today is the Colorado Blue Spruce, Picea pungens. In the 1920's and 1930's it was a tree that proclaimed, "we've made it," a kind of silvan status symbol.

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 ...

#230 Picea pungens 'Glauca'
Common Names: Colorado blue spruce, blue spruce
Family: Pinaceae (pine Family)
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Picea pungens 'Glauca' Colorado blue spruce
evergreen, average care
created by chief cultivator
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Colorado Blue Spruce (P. pungens)
Mugo Pine (Pinus mugo)
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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.

Colorado Blue Spruce (Picea pungens 'Glauca')
Colorado Red Cedar (Juniperus scopulorum)
Colorado Spruce (Picea pungens)
Colorado Spruce (Picea pungens 'Koster')
Columbia Tiger Lily (Lilium columbianum)
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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).

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.

See also: Spruce, Blue spruce, Green, Picea, Pine