Common name: Brewers Spruce

Year planted: 2017

Country of origin: USA South West Oregon and North West California, Siskiyou mountains

Year introduced: By William Henry Brewer, 1853

Description: Reaches about 20m in cultivation but higher in the wild. Branches are flexible and pendulous and have evolved by natural selection to minimise snow damage. Has soft needles all around its shoots up to 2.5cm long. Produces pendulous cones which are narrow and open up to shed winged seed.

what3words: regretted.preoccupied.sunflower
Tree number: 73