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Caucasian spruce

The shoots are buff-brown, and moderately pubescent . The leaves are needle-like, the shortest of any spruce, 6-8 mm long, rhombic in cross-section, dark green with inconspicuous stomatal lines. The cones are slender cylindric-conic, 5-9 cm long and 1.5 cm broad, red to purple when young, maturing dark brown 5–7 months after pollination, and have stiff, smoothly rounded scales.

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Picea orientalis is planted in the highlighted USDA hardiness zones to the left and is not known to widely escape cultivaton. More

Picea orientalis 'Skylands Seedling' with leader removed for grafting purposes. More