Rather small tree, 8-10m. Trunk reddish-brown, especially appearing reddish in upperpart. Shoots light brown. Buds reddish or dark reddish, scales not appressed, not resinous. Leaves curved and more or less twisted, glaucescent. Cones more or less directed downwards, brown. Cultivated on north facing slope, broken by snow storm on 28 August 1992. See wood collection.