1)  Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca’                Blue Atlas Cedar

• A large coniferous tree with vivid, glaucous blue foliage, making it easy to identify.
• Native to Algeria and Morocco on the Atlas Mountains, these specimens can grow up to 100 feet tall and beyond.
• Located in the Pinetum near the Lynn Street play area.

2)  Cunninghamia lanceolata                China Fir

• Members of the family Taxodiaceae, these trees are named after James Cunningham, who originally found C. lanceolata on the Island of Chusan in 1701.
• Cunninghamias are closely related to the redwoods (Sequoia), although the foliage is similar to that of the monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana).
• Located in the Pinetum near the Newton Street entrance.

3)  Picea engelmannii ssp. Mexicana                       Engelmann Spruce

• Conical tree with bluish-green to steel-blue needles.
• Native to the mountains of western North America from Alberta and British Columbia (where it attains its greatest size) and south to New Mexico and Arizona.

4)  Picea pungens ‘Glauca’                Blue Colorado Spruce

• P. pungens is allied to P. engelmannii, differing in its glabrous shoots, and in its bluer, more pungently pointed leaves.
• Native to the Rocky Mountains and southern China.
• Located in the Pinetum.

5)  Sequoia Sempervirens ‘Henderson Blue’                Coast Redwood

• Native to a narrow belt of the California coastline, where summer fogs off the Pacific Ocean are frequent and mitigate the seasonal heat and drought.
• Located in the Pinetum near 26th Ave. East and East McGraw Street.