HRT 212 Plant Walk 2: Spruce, Taxus et al Preview

Pseudotsuga menziesii

Note needles single, cones with bracts hang down from branches

strong tangerine scented needles

Picea glauca ‘Conica’

Note reversions

Picea glauca

Note needles single, shorter than Norway or blue spruce. May be green or bluish.

cones 2", dark brown

branches acending

Yucca filamentosa

Picea abies

Note needles single, dark green. Less sharp than blue.

Cones 4-8" long, medium brown

Branches like ski-jumps with fringe

Cephalotaxus harringtonia

Look like taxus but with longer, darker needles

Taxus x media ‘Densiformis’

Picea pungens var. glauca

Note needles single, very square and sharp, blue

Cones 3-4 inches, light tan color

branching stiffly horizontal

Taxodium distichum

deciduous

Note very horizontal branching

buds tiny, almost invisible, alternate

Metasequoia glyptostroboides

deciduous

Note branches acending

buds clearly visible, opposite

Cryptomeria japonica

Needles awl-like, soft

round cones

Taxus cuspidata v. capitata

Picea orientalis

Note needles single, VERY short, dark green

cones brownish=purple

Tsuga canadensis

Note needles 2-ranked, brances flattened

bright stomate lines

tiny cones

Picea omorika

Note needles single, with PROMINENT WHITE LINES

habit usually skinny but varies

ski jump branches, branchlets NOT drooping

Abies fraseri

Note needles single, flat no peg at base

needles point up forming rounded brush shape on top side of branch

stomate lines on undersides of needles

Taxus baccata

Note the deer love this species

Tsuga canadensis ‘Sargentii’

Taxus x media ‘Hicksii’

Note upright habit