Meyer's Spruce

It is a medium-sized evergreen tree growing to 30 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 0.8 m. The shoots are yellowish-brown, glabrous or with scattered pubescence. The leaves are needle-like, 13-25 mm long, rhombic in cross-section, bluish-green with conspicuous stomatal lines. The cones are cylindric, 7-11 cm long and 3 cm broad, maturing pale brown 5-7 months after pollination, and have stiff, smoothly rounded scales.

Picea meyeri (Meyer's Spruce; Chinese: ??; pinyin: báiqi?n) is a species of spruce native to Nei Mongol in the northeast to Gansu in the southwest and also inhabiting Shanxi, Hebei and Shaanxi. It is a medium-sized evergreen tree growing to 30 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 0.8 m. The shoots are yellowish-brown, glabrous or with scattered pubescence. The leaves are needle-like, 13-25 mm long, rhombic in cross-section, bluish-green with conspicuous stomatal lines. More

Picea meyeri Rehder & Wilson - Common Names Meyer spruce; Baigian (1). Taxonomic notes Syn: P. meyeri var. mongolica Wu (1). Description Range N China: Shanxi (Wutai Shan), Hebei, Shaanxi, Nei Mongol and possible S Gansu (1). More