Tree to 50 m tall. Bark grey-brown, furrowed, becoming scaly. Branches yellow-brown, drooping. Winter buds 5–7 mm long, ovoid to conic. Leaves 16–30 mm long, quadrangular in cross section, blue-green; apex acute, spine-tipped. Female cones cylindrical, narrowed at base and apex, 5–11 cm long, reddish when young, pale brown at maturity; scales elliptic to rhomboidal, toothed at the tip, thinly woody or stiffly chartaceous.
GipP, CVU, HSF, VAlp.
Native to western North America. Commonly grown in Victoria as an ornamental tree, occasionally escaping cultivation.
