
This is the spruce that actually works in Indiana — Purdue recommends it as the replacement when blue spruce fails, because it carries real resistance to Rhizosphaera needle cast. The catch is scale: people plant it as "a spruce" on a quarter-acre lot and end up with a seventy-foot tree eight feet off the foundation.
Large tree · $400–$1,900 typical
Also searched as Picea abies, European spruce.