Picea × saaghii
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Credits
Tom Christian (2025)
Recommended citation
Christian, T. (2025), 'Picea × saaghii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- Picea × saaghyi orth. var.
Infraspecifics
Other taxa in genus
- Picea abies
- Picea × albertiana
- Picea alcoquiana
- Picea asperata
- Picea asperata aggregate
- Picea brachytyla
- Picea breweriana
- Picea chihuahuana
- Picea crassifolia
- Picea engelmannii
- Picea farreri
- Picea × fennica
- Picea glauca
- Picea glehnii
- Picea jezoensis
- Picea koraiensis
- Picea koyamae
- Picea likiangensis
- Picea likiangensis aggregate
- Picea linzhiensis
- Picea × lutzii
- Picea mariana
- Picea × mariorika
- Picea martinezii
- Picea maximowiczii
- Picea mexicana
- Picea meyeri
- Picea morrisonicola
- Picea neoveitchii
- Picea obovata
- Picea omorika
- Picea orientalis
- Picea polita
- Picea pungens
- Picea purpurea
- Picea rubens
- Picea schrenkiana
- Picea sitchensis
- Picea smithiana
- Picea spinulosa
- Picea wilsonii
Described in Germany in 1929 to cover artificial hybrids between White Spruce of North America (Picea glauca) and Yezo Spruce of NE Asia (P. jezoensis) (Plants of the World Online 2025) that had been created by Dr. J. von Saaghyi of the Kámon Arboretum, Hungary. It is represented in gardens today almost exclusively in the guise of two, perhaps three cultivars; see below.
'Hexenbesen'
Literally ‘witches’ broom’, this cultivar was listed by the Oregon firm Bucholz & Bucholz in 2009, but the name suggests a German origin. It forms a diminutive bun, to at most 30 cm tall and broad after ten years, but often smaller, with bright green leaves (Auders & Spicer 2012). A clone circulating in Europe as ‘WB’ is probably, but not certainly, the same.
'Walter Kohler'
A dwarf raised from seed from the original hybrid tree, taken and grown by Walter Kohler of Pirna, Hungary before 1990. It forms a broadly-conical to subglobose plant with silvery-blue leaves, reaching up to 70 cm tall and broad in ten years (Auders & Spicer 2012).