Foliage Notes:
Blue (Beautiful blue evergreen foliage)
Fruit Notes:
Green;brown (Glaucous green immature cones;Cones become brown with maturity)
Soil Notes:
Prefers well-drained, moist loams, but is tolerant of both sand and clay soils, as long as there is good drainage
Diagnostic Characteristics:
The blue needles are 0.5-1" long and spirally-arranged in clusters that arise from short spurs. Newly emerging growth is downy. Cones are 2-4" long and 1.75-2" wide. The upright, purple female cones are borne near the upper part of the tree, while the male cones tend to be in the lower half.