Podocarpus Elongatus Icee Blue
The more i see icee blue the more i am convinced that this is a tree that does best when protected from hot sun.
Podocarpus elongatus icee blue. Attractive narrow dense growing foliage matures to a unique grayish blue color especially attractive when contrasted with the emergence of its soft light blue colored juvenile foliage. Slow growing evergreen tree with a columnar to pyramidal growth habit to 15 25 tall and wide. The first podocarpus with distinctive blue foliage one of the most beautiful and decorative pyramidal conifers for the south new growth is lime grey blue maturing to a cool grey blue green on this excellent specimen lawn or screen tree. It is shown off to excellent effect at the entrance to descanso gardens.
It has narrow 2 inch long leaves that emerge a light green blue color and age to an unusual cool gray blue. New growth emerges lime gray blue then matures to a cool gray blue green. In los angeles the most distinctive tree for container growing is icee blue yellow wood podocarpus elongatus monmal.