Photo of Picea Conica (Spruce conifer)

Picea glauca Conica Conifer This tree typically grows 60-80' tall (less frequently to 140' tall) with a cone-shaped crown. It diminishes in size to low, shrubby forms near tree line in northern Canada. Blue-green needles (to 3/4") on small woody pegs have sharp tips. Needles are pungently aromatic when crushed. Needles have a glaucous (white waxy coating) bloom, hence the specific epithet and common name. Branchlets do not droop. Cylindrical pale brown cones (to 2.5" long) have flexible scales. Pinaceae

Author : Monique Dumas-Quesnel
Photo # : 08305
Online since: October 6th 2014