The Serbian Spruce is a medium to fast growing (2ft + per year) evergreen that has a needle that is 1 inch long and is dark green on the top and a silver on the bottom. It never drops its needles and holds them for up to 10 years. Its small purple seed cones are quite interesting. It is a native of a small area of Serbia and Yugoslavia where it grows on limestone hillsides along the Drina river. Unfortunately they are expected to be extinct within 200 years in their native area, due to many factors explained below.

It can grow to 50+ ft tall and 20+ft wide, and like other spruces it is wind firm and has a tough flexible wood. Heavy snow and ice storms cause little damage to this tree. Deer do not like to eat this tree unless nothing else is available.