Picea engelmannii 'Heike' #67 is an irregularly globose miniature selection of Engelmann spruce with random clumpy branching, attractive dusty-Blue needles and prominent yellow-orange foliar buds. After 10 years of growth, a mature specimen will measure only 10 inches (25 cm) tall and wide, an annual growth rate of 1 inch (2.5 cm) or less.
This cultivar originated as a witch'™s broom found during a joint broom hunting expedition on January 20, 2004 along the Mt Evans road in Colorado'™s front range. Among those in attendance where Colorado'™s Jerry Morris, Austria'™s Franz Etzelstorfer, and Germany'™s Jörg Kohout, three of the legends in the field of conifer collecting. Upon collection, it was given provisional name Picea engelmannii [#67] and later renamed in honor of Heike Kohout, who was married to Jörg at the time. Purists will list this plant as Picea engelmannii 'Heike'™ #67.
