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Picea rubens, commonly known as red spruce, is a species of spruce native to eastern North America, ranging from eastern Quebec and Nova Scotia, west to the Adirondack Mountains and south through New England along the Appalachians to western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.
A list of tree species, grouped generally by biogeographic realm and specifically by bioregions, and shade tolerance. Shade-tolerant species are species that are able to thrive in the shade, and in the presence of natural competition by other plants.
Spruce (Picea) Norway spruce (Picea abies) Black spruce (Picea mariana) Red spruce (Picea rubens) Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) White spruce (Picea glauca) Sugi (Cryptomeria japonica) White cedar Northern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis) Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides) Nootka cypress (Cupressus nootkatensis)
The peg-like base of the needles, or pulvinus, in Norway spruce (Picea abies) Pulvini remain after the needles fall (white spruce, Picea glauca). Determining that a tree is a spruce is not difficult; evergreen needles that are more or less quadrangled, and especially the pulvinus, give it away.
Picea rubens (red spruce) The straight-grained wood is lightweight but strong. It is the most popular choice in many stringed instruments for its resonance. Uses: timber; posts, pulpwood, terpenes, veneers. [40] [41] All eastern provinces
Lowland conifer forests occur on flats, low ridges, and knolls near bodies of water. They are dominated by balsam fir (Abies balsamea) and red spruce (Picea rubens), although white pine (Pinus strobus), red pine (Pinus resinosa) and jack pine (Pinus banksiana) and paper birch (Betula papyrifera) also occur. The ground is often stony with little ...
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: Serbian spruce Pinaceae (pine family) Picea orientalis: Caucasian spruce Pinaceae (pine family) Picea polita: tiger-tail spruce Pinaceae (pine family) Picea pungens: blue spruce Pinaceae (pine family) 96 Picea purpurea: purple-cone spruce Pinaceae (pine family) Picea retroflexa: green dragon spruce Pinaceae (pine family) Picea ...