Conifer Database - Falcato-viminalis

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Picea abies ‘Falcato-viminalis’

Picea abies

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).




Picea abies

Picea abies

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GROWTH SIZE:Large: greater than 12 inches (30 cm) per year / greater than 12 feet (4 m) after 10 years
ORIGIN:(unknown)


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