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Pseudotsuga macrocarpa, commonly called the bigcone spruce or bigcone Douglas-fir, is an evergreen conifer native to the mountains of southern California. It is notable for having the largest (by far) cones in the genus Pseudotsuga , hence the name.
Picea engelmannii, with the common names Engelmann spruce, [3] white spruce, [3] mountain spruce, [3] and silver spruce, [3] is a species of spruce native to western North America. Highly prized for producing distinctive tone wood for acoustic guitars and other instruments, it is mostly a high-elevation mountain tree but also appears in watered ...
Foliage and cones. Red spruce is a perennial, [8] shade-tolerant, late successional [9] coniferous tree that under optimal conditions grows to 18–40 m (59–131 ft) tall with a trunk diameter of about 60 cm (24 in), though exceptional specimens can reach 46 m (151 ft) tall and 100 cm (39 inches) in diameter.
A mature female big-cone pine (Pinus coulteri) cone, the heaviest pine cone A young female cone on a Norway spruce (Picea abies) Immature male cones of Swiss pine (Pinus cembra) A conifer cone, or in formal botanical usage a strobilus, pl.: strobili, is a seed-bearing organ on gymnosperm plants, especially in conifers and cycads.
Species name Range in Canada Global rank Notes YK NT NU LB CA; BC AB SK MB ON QC NB PE NS NF; Abies amabilis Pacific silver fir YK NT NU LB CA Secure BC AB SK MB
Picea omorika, commonly known as the Pančić spruce [2] [3] or Serbian spruce (Serbian: Панчићева оморика, Pančićeva omorika, pronounced [pâːnt͡ʃit͡ɕɛv̞a ɔmɔ̌rika]), is a species of coniferous tree endemic to the Drina River valley in western Serbia, and eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a total range of only about 60 ha, at 800–1,600 m (2,600–5,200 ft ...
The seed cones closely resemble those of the Sitka spruce but are smaller and with the rounded tops of white spruce cones. [ 6 ] Between 1987 and 2000 the largest known epidemic of spruce bark beetle ( Dendroctonus rufipennis ) caused the death of 90% of white, Sitka, and hybrid Lutz spruce, almost all of the mature spruce trees, in a 3.2 ...
Catalogue of the flora of Montana and the Yellowstone National Park (PDF). New York: New York Botanical Garden. Booth, W.E. (1950). Flora of Montana, Part I Conifers and Monocots. Bozeman, Montana: The Research Foundation at Montana State College. Kavanaugh, James (2005). Montana Trees & Wildflowers: An Introduction to Familiar Species ...