Balsam Fir vs Christmas Blue Spruce - TreeTime.ca

Balsam Fir vs Christmas Blue Spruce

Picea pungens Christmas Blue

Abies balsamea

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Christmas Blue Spruce
Balsam Fir

The Christmas Blue Spruce is a popular choice for Christmas tree farms due to its strong scent and pyramidal shape. This is a cultivar of the Blue Spruce and is a cold-hardy evergreen tree with grey-blue needles.

The Christmas Blue Spruce is highly pollution tolerant, and is native to North America.

Balsam Fir - best known as a "Christmas tree" - doesn't just look great in living rooms; it's a terrific tree for your yard too!

This fir grows tall and narrow. Balsam Fir is cold hardy, shade tolerant, and will thrive in most soil types and moisture levels.

Christmas Blue Spruce Quick Facts

Balsam Fir Quick Facts

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Zone: 3a
Zone: 2a
Height: 27 m (90 ft)
Height: 25 m (82 ft)
Spread: 6 m (20 ft)
Spread: 8 m (25 ft)
Light: full sun
Light: any
Moisture: dry, normal
Moisture: normal
Growth rate: slow
Growth rate: slow
Life span: long
Life span: long
Suckering: none
Suckering: none


Foliage: light blue grey
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Native to: AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NS, NB, NL, PE
Other Names: colorado christmas spruce
Other Names: balm of gilead, blister fir, canada balsam, eastern fir, fir-balsam