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Picea pungens
In the wild, Picea pungens grows to about 23 m (75 ft), but when planted in parks and gardens it seldom exceeds 15 m (49 ft) tall by 5 m (16 ft) wide. It is a columnar or conical evergreen conifer with densely growing horizontal branches. It has scaly grey bark on the trunk with yellowish-brown branches.Waxy grey-green leaves, up to 3 cm (1 in) long, are arranged radially on the shoots which curve upwards. The pale brown cones are up to 10 cm long.The specific epithet pungens means "sharply pointed", referring to the leaves.The blue spruce is the State Tree of Colorado.
Idaho's Winter Wonders
Spotted on Jan 5, 2015
Submitted on Jan 5, 2015
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The pictures that I'm looking at look more like a Blue Spruce. Are the needles stiff or soft? Do you have a picture of the cones close up that you could post?