Taxon

Picea 'Troemner'

 
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Picea 'Troemner' - Troemner spruce
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Common name: Troemner spruce
Family: Pinaceae (pine family)
Distribution: hybrid: selection of Picea omorika × P. pungens 'Koster'
Hardiness: USDA Zone 4
Life form: Evergreen tree
Comments: This hybrid evergreen conifer will probably reach 30-50' tall and half as wide. It has nicely pendulous branchlets with bluish needles not as stiff as Colorado blue spruce. Vigorous and strong growing with a beautiful upright, narrowly conical habit, both as a young plant and as a mature specimen. This hybrid is showing signs of resistance to Rhizosphaera needle cast disease which is decimating Colorado spruce in our area.
Links: American Conifer Society Database

Locations

  • 1: MAG: CD12 (CD12) • Accession: D1998-0002.001 • Provenance: Cultivated of Garden Origin
  • 2: VCA: AW15 (AW15) • Accession: D1998-0002.002 • Provenance: Cultivated of Garden Origin
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