General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Tree
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Wet
Wet Mesic
Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Soil pH Preferences: Strongly acid (5.1 – 5.5)
Moderately acid (5.6 – 6.0)
Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Plant Height: 120 - 180 feet
Plant Spread: 20 - 60 feet
Leaves: Evergreen
Needled
Fruit: Edible to birds
Other: female cones with papery or thin woody scales
Fruiting Time: Late summer or early fall
Fall
Late fall or early winter
Winter
Flowers: Other: soft male cones
Flower Time: Spring
Uses: Windbreak or Hedge
Provides winter interest
Edible Parts: Fruit
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant
Propagation: Seeds: Can handle transplanting
Other info: Seeds are inside cones
Pollinators: Wind
Containers: Not suitable for containers
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
Monoecious

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Common names
  • Brewer Spruce
  • Weeping Spruce
  • Brewer's Weeping Spruce
  • Spruce

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Date: c. 1895
illustration from ' Mitteilungen der Deutschen dendrologischen ge
Location: Greenwich Park (Royal Park) London, England.
Date: 2013-10-18
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2020-07-25
Location: Lower Canyon Creek Lake, Klamath Mountains, northern California
Date: July
credit: Miguel Vieira
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Picea breweriana by valleylynn Oct 24, 2013 7:47 AM 1

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