| ID Characteristic | It is a large coniferous tree with deep green needles and spreading branches. It also has a tight conical tip. |
| Shape | It is wide spread but loosely conical in nature. It has a very tight cone shape at the top. |
| Landscape | This tree is useful as a windbreak. |
| Propagation | |
| Cultivation | It is very hardy and can handle many different types of soils. It is also a plant that can handle brief periods of drought fairly well, but will not endure such conditions for a long period of time. |
| Pests | No specific pests are known for this species. |
| Habitat | This tree grows all along the western coastline in high altitudes, such as the Rocky Mountain Range. It also grows from south Yukon to Idaho. |
| Bark/Stem Description | The bark on young trees is smooth, gray, and with resin blisters, becoming rough and fissured or scaly on old trees. |
| Flower/Leaf Bud Description | Buds are the same basic colour as the bark, and are very large and scaled. |
| Leaf Description | The leaves are flat, needle-like, 1.5 - 3 cm long, glaucous green above with a broad stripe of stomata and two blue-white stomatal bands below; the fresh leaf scars are reddish. They are arranged spirally on the shoot, but with the leaf bases twisted. |
| Fruit Description | The cones are erect, 6 – 12 cm long, dark blackish purple with fine yellow-brown pubescence, ripening brown and disintegrating to release the winged seeds in early autumn. |
| Colour Description | The tree is deep green in colour with similarly coloured flowers. |
