Spruce with mutant cones

3 years ago

I am doing my PhD research on P. abies female cone production and we are using P. abies 'Acrocona' as a sort of "model plant" due to it producing cones and cone-like structures yearly. We have been looking into widening the scope of our research into other spruce varieties with mutant cones. We already have access to P. abies 'Pusch' (which is an Acrocona derivative) and P. pungens 'Hermann Naue'. I have identified a couple other interesting spruce varieties: P. pungens 'Early Cones' and P. pungens 'Ruby Teardrops' but I can't find anywhere to buy them in Europe and the places that might have them have not responded to my emails yet.

Does anyone know where I could get these trees in Europe? Or know of any other spruce or conifer that has strange/mutant cones? For example producing them too early, too often, or in the wrong location or even male-female or vegetative-female shoots?

Below is an example of an Acrocona shoot. They produce vegetative-female shoots on apical meristems. Wild type spruce produces cones on lateral meristems and apical meristems are vegetative. Shoots are either entirely vegetative or female, not these half vegetative-half female shoots.

Thanks!

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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
3 years ago
edwin .. aka conifer joy.. but i dont know how to track him down ... ken
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
3 years ago
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well.. that that wasnt hard:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=edwin+conifer+joy&ia=web

let us know if he helps you

ken
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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
3 years ago
btw.. ruby teardrops is from conifer kingdom i believe... they might know who they gave/sold plants to in europe ... ken
spruce_in_sweden
Original Author
3 years ago
Thanks Ken. I emailed Edwin a week or so ago through the email I found on his website, but never heard back. Also emailed conifer kingdom and Sam sent me a nice list of people. Unfortunately I had already contacted them and still haven't gotten a response. Most seem to be decently active on the facebook conifer group, so hope I can get their attention on there.

Do you know if Zsolt Mesterhazy is still around? The conifer treasury hasn't been active in a few years and the email listed on the webiste is not valid anymore.
Jim - Vanishing Falls
3 years ago
Hi spruce, i have a few spruce in my garden that i can think of that has cones growing from the growing tips, one is picea abies ”cobra an iseli intro, i took that pic yesterday after seeing your post. i crossed it with ’gold drift’ last season, hoping for some snakey yellows.

I also noticed a ‘Yukon blue ‘white spruce, picea glauca another iseli intro that has many cones growing from the tips, let me know and ill post a pic

hope this is helpful

jim
spruce_in_sweden
Original Author
3 years ago
Thanks for the conment! I hope the cross comes out nicely! Definitely post more pictures when you have the time