Black Spruce vs Blue Spruce Iseli Fastigiate (Columnar) - TreeTime.ca

Black Spruce vs Blue Spruce Iseli Fastigiate (Columnar)

Picea mariana

Picea pungens Iseli Fastigiata

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Black Spruce
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Black Spruce is a medium-sized coniferous tree that tolerates wet ground better than most spruces. It has a characteristic straight trunk and a narrow crown.

Iseli Fastigiate Blue Spruce is perfect if you are looking for colour all year. A cultivar of the Blue Spruce, it is also known as the Columnar Colorado Blue Spruce. The Iseli Fastigiate Blue Spruce is one of the more distinctive evergreens. Its foliage is blueish in the spring and blue/green in the winter. Best used as an accent tree, the Blue Spruce has a narrowly upright and columnar form with upwards forking branches.

Black Spruce Quick Facts

Blue Spruce Iseli Fastigiate (Columnar) Quick Facts

Zone: 1a
Zone: 2b
Height: 20 m (66 ft)
Height: 12 m (40 ft)
Spread: 5 m (16 ft)
Spread: 5 m (15 ft)
Light: any
Light: full sun
Moisture: normal, wet
Moisture: dry, normal
Growth rate: slow
Growth rate: slow
Life span: long
Life span: long
Suckering: none
Suckering: none


Cones: dark purple
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Native to: AB, BC, SK, MB, ON, QC, NS, NB, NL, YT, NT, NU, PE
Other Names: bog spruce, canadian spruce, double spruce, eastern spruce, shorleaf black spruce, swamp spruce
Other Names: iseli columnar blue spruce