Foliage Notes:
Green (Densely set grayish dark green to bluish-green evergreen foliage)
Fruit Notes:
Brown (Interesting cones with forked bracts in fall)
Soil Notes:
Prefers neutral or slightly acid, moist, well-drained soils; fails on poor, dry soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Needles (0.8-1.2" long) are slightly flattened, and arranged in a cone-like (pectinate) fashion. Needles create a slight V-shape when viewed down tip. Two faint waxy lines on needle underside. Buds (0.25- 0.3" long) are shiny and chestnut brown. Cones (2-4" long) have distinct forked bracts protruding from under scales. Branchlets and branches of 'Fastigiata' are distinctly upright and densely covered in needles.
