Picea omorika
Serbian Spruce

Picea omorika - Overall Tree
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 Growth Forms:
 Hardiness:
 Deciduous / Evergreen:
 Foliage Notes:
Green (Attractive, glossy evergreen foliage that is white on one side)
 Fruit Notes:
Brown (Cone)
 Ultimate Height:
50-60 feet
 Ultimate Spread:
20-25 feet
 Light Requirements:
 Soil Notes:
Prefers moist, well-drained soil, but pH adaptable
 Range:
Southeastern Europe
 Diagnostic Characteristics:
Needles short (0.5-1" long) and flat (most spruce needles are 4-sided), keeled on both sides, dark green above and glaucous white with 4-6 distinct, waxy bands on either side of the midrib below. Bark coffee color, with thin scales. Cones are 2", purplish colored when young to cinnamon-brown when mature, and usually not abundant.
  Special Characteristics:
  • Screen 171
  • Specimen 598

    • Additional Information

    One of the most beautiful and valued spruces for landscape planting. More useful than most as a screen where space is limited because of narrow form. Needles can brown in windy exposed sites in winter. Can get aphids, budworms, and borers, though these are not usually serious problems.

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