PICEA breweriana

'Brewer's Weeping Spruce'. Perhaps the most beautiful of all spruces and one of the most popular of all ornamental conifers. A small to medium-sized, broadly conical tree with spreading or decurved branches from which hang slender, tail-like branchlets. Leaves to 3cm long, shining dark blue-green above, marked with 2 white bands beneath. Cones up to 10cm long, green at first, turning purple later.