This is a fairly old cultivar named after a horticulturist from Belgium named Frederick Canaert of the 19th century. It was commonly sold at many conventional nurseries I believe starting in the 1950's or at least the 1960's, and still popular into the 1990's. Not sure about right now as being commonly sold. It is a good cultivar that has a good bright yet dark green foliage of mostly the soft mature scale-like needles, but does have some of the immature, prickly, awl-like needles on young branches. It has most interesting tufted kind of branch tips that spiral upwards a little. It is a female cultivar that bears a lot of the tiny cones covered by a waxy blue covering that are gray-looking at first from a whitish bloom. I used to have an excellent photo of one by itself at Cantigny Gardens in Wheaton, Illinois from the early 1980's that was about 15 feet high. I found that I had a more recent photo of a group over on the left edge while I was taking a shot of a Jack Pine. It stays as a compact pyramidal tree of about 15 to 20 feet for a long time, but eventually it will grow bigger and open up its form as decades go on.

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