Picea sitchensis

The bark is thin and scaly, flaking off in small circular plates 5–20 cm across. The crown is broad conic in young trees, becoming cylindric in older trees; old trees may have no branches in the lowest 30–40 m. The shoots are very pale buff-brown, almost white, and glabrous but with prominent pulvini. The leaves are stiff, sharp and needle-like, 15–25 mm long, flattened in cross-section, dark glaucous blue-green above with two or three thin lines of stomata, and blue-white below with two dense bands of stomata.

logs in Picea sitchensis - Tsuga heterophylla forests of coastal Oregon and Washington. Canadian Journal of Botany. 67: 1833-1837. 21. Harmon, Mark E.; Franklin, Jerry F. 1989. Tree seedlings on logs in Picea-Tsuga forests of Oregon and Washington. Ecology. 70(1): 48-59. 22. Harris, A. S. 1966. Effects of slash burning on conifer regeneration in southeast Alaska. Research Note NOR-18. Juneau, AK: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Forest Experiment Station. 6 p. 23. Harris, A. S. 1978. More

* Sitka spruce ( Picea sitchensis ) is the state tree of Alaska. Common Names - Click on the language to view common names. More