Picea abies 'Falcato-viminalis' is a robust, fast-growing selection of Norway spruce with upcurved serpentine branching, strictly pendulous branchlets and thick, sickle-shaped, dark-green needles. After 10 years of growth, a mature specimen will measure 7.5 feet (2.5 m) tall and 4.5 feet (1.5 m) wide, an annual growth rate of 10 inches (25 cm).
'Falcato-viminalis' is an old cultivar, known to exist in arboretums and large collections since the early 1900s. German botanist, Fritz Kurt Alexander von Schwerin (1856-1934) first described this cultivar in botanical literature in 1919 in Mitteilung Deutsche Dendrologie, vol. 27 (Encyclopedia of German Trees).
