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Picea pungens, Engelm. (P. Parryana, Sarg. Abies Menziesii, Engelm., not Lindl.). Colorado Spruce. Fig. 2943. Tree, 80-100, or occasionally to 150 ft., with horizontal stout branches in rather remote whorls, forming a broad, regular pyramid: winter buds with brownish yellow usually reflexed scales: young branches glabrous, bright yellowish brown: lvs. rigid, incurved, spiny -acuminate, bluish green to silvery white or rarely dull green, 3/4 - 1 1/5 in long with 2 resin canals: cones cylindric-oblong, light brown and glossy, 2 1/2 - 4 in. long; scales
rhomboidal, narrowed and erose at the apex. Wyo. to Colo, and Utah. S.S. 12:600. G.C. II. 20:725; III. 10:547. Mn. 7, p. 51. Gng. 7:49. S.H. 2:273. F. 1884, p. 5. G.M.40:35. A very handsome and very hardy tree of symmetrical habit, with light, sometimes almost silvery white foliage. According to the different shades of color of the foliage, the following varieties are distinguished: Var. glauca, Beissn. With bluish green lvs. Gn. 63, p. 280. G.M. 50: 121. Gn. M. 2:26. G.W. 1, p. 355; 14, p.14. R.B. 32, p. 106. Var. caerulea, Beissn. With bluish white foliage. G.W. 1, p. 357. Var. argentea, Beissn. With silvery white foliage. Gt. 53, p. 493. G.W. 2, p. 295; 8, p. 481; 10, p. 48. M.D.G. 1901:178. Var. Kosteri, Beissn. With silvery white foliage and of very regular pyramidal habit. G.W. 15, p. 467. F.E. 16:461; 18: 82. Var. glauca
pendula, Beissn. With bluish foliage and pendulous branches. R.H. 1901, p. 183. F.E. 32:1173. G.W. 6, p. 399; 9, p. 543; 16, p. 79. M.D.G. 1901:133. Var. viridis, Regel (P. commutata, Hort.). is the form with green lvs. Var. compacta, Rehd. A dwarf compact form; originated at
the Arnold Arboretum. Var. aurea, Niemetz. With golden yellow foliage. Var. flavescens, Niemetz. With whitish yellow foliage. Var. Moerheimii, Rujis. Grows more compact and foliage deeper blue.
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==Cultivation==
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==Species==
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==Gallery==
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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