The Dawes Arboretum

Common name: McConnell's Gold white spruce

Family: Pinaceae (pine family)

Synonym: Picea glauca 'Mac Gold'

Distribution: Species native to n. North America

Hardiness: USDA Zone 2

Life form: Evergreen tree

Comments: A very distinctive and attractive seedling selection of a needled evergreen. Its new growth emerges bright yellow-gold becoming medium green in summer. Its habit is distinctly conical and matures to about 30' tall and half as wide with 6-12" yearly growth. This is a spectacular tree in the early spring landscape and is great used as a specimen, with other conifers or in the border.