blue spruce
Picea pungens latin

I am not sure why anyone would want a blue spruce.

Even a 7-foot blue spruce would be too heavy, she said.

The blue spruce knocked its branch against the west wall again.

It was good not to be dead in the mud under a blue spruce tree.

Last year a 35-foot blue spruce was planted in front of the inn.

Most of the stock is Douglas fir, with some blue spruce.

They cheered as Andrew helped her carry in the blue spruce.

The Colorado blue spruce is still small, but at least it no longer looks like a gumdrop.

This was particularly true for the Colorado blue spruce and certain firs.

The blue spruce tree that had been erected for Christmas was still set up in the center of the hall.

He flattened himself behind a small blue spruce and peered at the lodge.

He nodded toward a big blue spruce, its needles wet and dripping.

There she raises Christmas trees, blue spruces to be exact.

They also attack blue spruce to a lesser degree.

A row of blue spruce trees divides the garden into two large sections.

Who can ask a neighbor to cut back the trespassing inch or two of a beautiful blue spruce?

Ours was a large blue spruce and its full rich color was lovely.

It was the blue spruce, a tree of dignified proportions and splendid color.

They were helping Murray carry a huge blue spruce.

"So it was the blue spruce getting knocked into the fireplace that started it."

Last year she carried blue spruce to Indianapolis.

Higher up, blue spruce made an occasional appearance.

The aspen went early for building flumes, and the blue spruce vanished soon thereafter.

European aspen, blue spruce and sand cherry are among the exotic trees occasionally seen.

Honey stared out of the window at the huge blue spruce tree which stood in front of the house.

Picea pungens, used medicinally and ceremonially.

Picea pungens and its many cultivars are often grown as ornamental trees in gardens and parks.

Picea pungens Blue Spruce or Colorado Spruce.

The larvae feed on various spruces, including Picea omorika and Picea pungens.

USDA Plant Profile for Picea pungens (blue spruce)

The Colorado Blue Spruce, Picea pungens, was adopted as the official state tree on March 7, 1939, by a resolution of the General Assembly.

In commoration of his donation a cultivar of the Colorado spruce was named Picea pungens 'Montgomery' in his honor.

The larvae feed on Picea abies, Picea pungens, Picea sitchensis and Larix species.

Below Echo Lake, the montane forest is dominated by lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) and in some areas, blue spruce (Picea pungens), with patches of quaking aspen.

Among the dozens of specimens that they will talk about are red Ilex verticillata, Hinoki cypress, Picea pungens Thompsoni, Pieris Japonica and Yucca Golden Sword.

One find, a dwarf Colorado spruce with dense powder-blue needles and a pyramid shape, was named after him in 1949: Picea pungens R. H. Montgomery, now one of the most widely planted conifers in America.

"Color can be very important," said Mr. Iseli, who uses Norway spruce as the understock trunk for a standard with a head of silvery-blue globosa spruce (Picea pungens Globosa).

She was surveying the strategically placed dwarf evergreens, which include the horizontal junipers Prince of Wales and Blue Chip, ball-shaped Colorado spruces (Picea pungens globosa) and weeping hemlocks (Tsuga canadensis prostrata).

The Colorado blue spruce (Picea pungens) grows to at least 70 to 90 feet in height, while the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum), which does best in saturated soil, grows to 120 feet in height and its buttressed trunk can be massive.

Conifers from hotter areas with high sunlight levels (e.g. Turkish Pine Pinus brutia) often have yellower-green leaves, while others (e.g. Blue Spruce Picea pungens) have a very strong glaucous wax bloom to reflect ultraviolet light.

The Colorado spruce, blue spruce, green spruce or Colorado blue spruce (Picea pungens), is a species of pine tree native to the Rocky Mountains of the United States, from Colorado to Wyoming, and introduced as a popular ornamental tree found far beyond its native range.