Description
P. omorika – Serbian Spruce – This fast growing, pyramidal tree with pendent branches upturned at the tips is form Bosnia and Serbia grows 70-100′ feet tall and 6-10′ feet wide.It has brown bark cracking into square plates, and orange-brown shoots with black hairs.It produces flattened, square tipped dark to blue green leaves, ½-3/4″ long, grayish beneath, lie flat at the sides of the shoots and are spreading below.It bears ovate-oblong, purplish later brown female cones, 1 1/4-3″ long.Tolerates alkaline soil and is more tolerant to urban pollution then most.
‘Nana’ –
is slow growing reaching 3′ feet tall and wide and is spherical when young,
pyramidal with age.
Grow in any deep, moist but well drained, ideally neutral to acidic soil in full sun.It will not withstand polluted environments.
Zones 4-8
