Picea orientalis Aurea Spicata is a small tree with dense foliage on drooping branchlets and arresting new spring growth.
New shoots are golden yellow while the mature inner growth turns green making for a very attractive and striking contrast.
Gold Tipped Oriental Spruce grows very slowly into a narrow pyramidal form and will take around ten years to get to its maximum height of around 6m.
It produces reddish-purple cones that turn brown as they mature.
They are ideal as a lawn specimen in medium to large sized gardens with many landscapers considering them superior to the more common Norway spruce.