Brewer Spruce, Brewer's Weeping Spruce              PI-see-a broo-er-ee-AH-na

• Conifer, evergreen tree, 50-80 ft (15-24 m) tall, slow growing, open crown, long pendulous middle and lower branches, to 2.5 m long.  Needles flattened to rounded triangular, 2-3 cm long, 2 stomatal lines on the lower surface, tend to point forward on the branchlet, radial distribution on hanging shoots.  Cones hang down, oblong-cylindrical, 6-15 cm long, rounded scale-tips, purplish-red, becoming reddish-brown at maturity, seeds black, 3 mm.
• Sun.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 6     Native to the Siskiyou Montains of southwestern Oregon and northern California.  One of the rarest and least known American spruce.
• breweriana: after its discoverer, William Henry Brewer (1828-1910), a professor of agriculture at Yale.
• Portland, Oregon: Hoyt Arboretum