White spruce

The white spruce is a large evergreen tree which grows normally to 15 to 30 metres tall, but can grow up to 40 metres tall with a trunk diameter of up to 1 metre . The bark is thin and scaly, flaking off in small circular plates 5 to 10 centimetres across. The crown is narrow conic in young trees, becoming cylindric in older trees. The shoots are pale buff-brown, glabrous in the east of the range, but often pubescent in the west, and with prominent pulvini. The leaves are needle-like, 12 to 20 millimetres long, rhombic in cross-section, glaucous blue-green above with several thin lines of stomata, and blue-white below with two broad bands of stomata.

Picea glauca (White Spruce) is a species of spruce native to the north of North America, from central Alaska east to Newfoundland, and south to northern Montana, Michigan, Maine and Wisconsin; there is also an isolated population in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. Foliage and cones It is a medium-sized evergreen tree growing to 15–30 m tall, rarely to 40 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 1 m. More

* Picea glauca (white spruce) is the provincial tree of Manitoba and the state tree (as Black Hills spruce) of South Dakota. Common Names - Click on the language to view common names. More

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