Serbian Spruce
- Botanical Name
- Picea omorika
- Min Zone
- 4
- Max Zone
- 7
- Height
- 50 to 60 feet
- Width
- 20 to 25 feet
- Flowers
- Monoecious
- Fruit
- Cone: small 1.25 to 1.75 inches long by .5 to .75 wide, oblong, purple maturing to cinnamon brown, scales have small dentate margins
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained, pH adaptable
- Planting & Care
- Best in well-drained, organic soils
- One of the more adaptable spruce to urban environments, pollution
- Shelter from strong winter winds
- Problems
- Aphids, budworm, borers
- Varieties
- Nana - dwarf, 8 to 10 feet tall, conical to globose form
- Sky Trails - blue-green needles with contrasting white bands on undersides, weeping habit
- Pendula - slender weeping form, slightly twisted brances, deep green needles with whitish undersides
- Gnome - dwarf, 2 to 3 feet high
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