Abies procera f. glauca 'Argentea'
lc: needles bluish-white, giving
silvery sheens. An extreme silvery variant from f. glauca.
or: Europe, probably Germany before 1886 when published by Freundenberg.
Abies procera 'Barbara's Dwarf'
li: Hatch, L.C. 1983. Reference
guide to ornamental plant cultivars. Taxonomic Computer Res. p. 4 (name
only, listed in collections)
Abies procera 'Blaue Hexe'
ha: dwarf, growth about 1 inch a
year, flat bun in time
lc: bluish-green
ns: name literally translates to "blue witch", more accurately a blue
witches broom.
in: Germany before 2002
Abies procera 'Blue Spiral'
ht: 20 ft. tall x 3 ft. wide
ha: narrowly columnar
lc: rich blue
or: Stanley & Sons, OR USA found as Christmas tree
Abies procera 'Delbert's Dwarf'
li: Hatch, L.C. 1983. Reference
guide to ornamental plant cultivars. Taxonomic Computer Res. p. 4 (name
only, listed in collections)
Abies procera 'Fastigiata'
provisional invalid name
ha: narrowly columner
ns: Latin name is post-1959 and thus invalid
in: Buchholz & Buchholz Nursery c. 1994 from old Christmas tree farm
li: Jacobson, A.L. 1996. North Amer. Land. Trees. Tenspeed Press. p. 9.
f.
glauca (Ravenscroft) Rehd. - click image
Pinetum, Highland Park
Arboretum., Rochester, NY. August 2005. This lovely giant was planted in
1918. The warm, near Lake Ontario, USDA 5 climate of
Rochester suits the firs much better than the colder Syracuse at USDA 4.
Abies procera f. glauca (Ravenscroft)
Rehd., 'Glauca', Glauca Group)
lc: richer greenish-blue, a more
glaucous plant
frq: female strobili often numerous in cultivation.
or: England c. 1863
ns, id: it is not a clone but instead a wild variation on the glaucescence
continuum as occurs in
ns, id: most spruce and fir species. The RHS use Glauca Group but once again
it is indistinct from
ns, id: the wild, botanical form, proving entirely redundant except that
good seedlings are sometimes
ns, id: grafted.
Abies procera 'Glauca Nana'
provisional invalid name
ha: dwarf, irregular arching,
may or not develop strong leader
lc: rich powder blue
Abies procera 'Glauca Prostrata'
(f. prostrata in part)
ha: low spreading to mounded,
prostrate to irregular flat-topped shrub, variable overall, leaders
can develop but are best removed or trained.
lc: richer, more glaucous blue
or: culivariant of f. glauca, that is a lateral, basal, or spreading shoot
and not from a terminal. It was
or: known to Hornibrook as f. prostrata before 1932
ns: f. prostrata (Horn.) Rehd. seems to refer to any prostrate, cultivariant
plant but invariably people always grow the bluest sorts which are
ns: covered here by 'Glauca Prostrata'. If a good prostrate green selection
proves itself, a new cultivar name should be assigned to it. One
ns: named clone of bluish-gray and compact appearance is 'Nobel', described
below.
in: Hillier Nurseries, England, 1928-29 catalog.
Abies procera 'La Graciosa'
ht: 3 ft. tall x 5 ft. wide
ha: broadly mounded, semi-dwarf, branches long and spreading, strongly
pendulous, growth 6 in. a year, some upright terminal shoots will develop
or: Christmas tree field, Evans Farm, near Oregon City, OR USA
in: Porterhowse Farms c. 1998, also listed by Stanley & Sons 2002
Abies procera 'Nobel'
ha: decumbent, a
cultivariant type spreader, compact
lc: bluish-gray
ll: needles smaller than species typical
li: Hatch, L.C. 1983. Reference guide to ornamental plant cultivars.
Taxonomic Computer Res. p. 4
Abies procera 'Rat Tail'
ha: smal, sparse, tree-form,
rat-tail like appearance
lt: needles very appressed giving a distinct appearance
Abies procera 'Robusta'
ha: robust, stronger
ll: needles larger
lt: needles thicker
or: Europe before 1891.
ns: it is not A. nobilis robusta of Masters which equates to A.
magnifica var. shastensis (Lemm.) Lemm.
so: probably lost to cultivation
Abies procera 'Sherwoodii' ('Aurea
Sherwoodii', 'Aurea')
ht, ha: 25 ft. -
smaller, slower
lc: golden-yellow all year, colored mainly on the upper side of shoots where
sun reaches them
or: Andy Sherman, Sherwood Nursery, Portland OR, named 1948, found in 1933
as a lightning struck tree
Abies procera 'Stanley's Select'
ha: upright, conical, neat,
"nice main leader" and "the perfect Christmas tree"
lc: rich turquoise blue
or: Stanley & Sons Nursery, OR USA c. 1972 |