Photo of Picea Koster (Dwarf White Spruce conifer)

Picea pungens Koster - Conifer - With needles a striking bluish grey colour. It becomes a broad, pyramidal tree with more or less horizontal branching arranged close together. The tree can grow to approx. 10 - 15 m in height and remains about 5 m in width. In its juvenile stage, it often doesn't have a main trunk that grows vertically, rendering support necessary. As it matures, it grows uniformly. The trunk is greyish brown and later greyish black and deeply scaled. The twigs have no hair and are orange-brown. The intensely silvery blue colour of the stiff, very pointy, closely grouped needles is striking. Its long, cylindrical cones are green at first and turn yellowish brown as they ripen. Family:  Pinaceae  

Author : John Caley
Photo # : 30842
Online since: February 3th 2019