Plant Database
Icee Blue Yellow Wood
Podocarpus elonqatus Icee Blue
The Icee Blue Fern Pine is a stunning color breakthrough, prized for its cool, silvery-blue foliagethat adds a sophisticated, year-round cool-toned accent to the landscape. Unlike the common green form, this selection offers a dense, pyramidal habit draped in soft, fern-like blue-gray leaves. It's exceptionally heat and drought-tolerant once established, making it a resilient and eye-catching choice for a specimen, screen, or large container in sunny, warm climates.
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Distinguished by its unique silvery-blue to blue-gray, fern-like foliage, providing exceptional color contrast.
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Grows with a dense, pyramidal to rounded form with gracefully weeping branchlets.
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Highly drought and heat tolerant, making it an excellent water-wise choice for California and similar climates.
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Fast-growing compared to many Podocarpus, reaching 15-25 feet.
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Works beautifully as a specimen tree, pruned into a hedge, or trained as an espalier.
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The cool foliage color is most pronounced in full sun.