Scientific name: Picea omorika

Common name:  Serbian spruce

Family name: Pinaceae

Useful cultivars and selections:

USDA hardiness zone: 4

Mature height and spread: 15-22m tall, 3-4m wide

Form: upright, columnar, narrow crown profile.

Water use: moderate

Soil requirements: well-drained

Leaf arrangement: needle-like. Spiraled.

Fall colour: none

Flower/cone/fruit description: cone. Violet, then black immature; cinnamon brown mature. Showy.

Limitations: needs right location to look good. Not shade tolerant.

Suitable uses: hedge. Specimen. Use close together on a slope (very narrow profile). Disease resistant.

Quick ID: conifer. Evergreen. Tree. Serbia. Needle-like, spiraled. Flattened sides on pegs. Two white lines underneath. Blunt needles (not sharp). Blue underside.

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