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Picea abies |
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Norway Spruce |
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Northern Europe |
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Strongly pyramidal, with spreading horizontal
branches and pendulous branchlets, graceful. |
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40-60 feet tall with a spread of 25-30 feet |
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Plants are
monoecious. Staminate cones are
infrequent and borne axillary, pistillate are
reddish pink in color and terminal. |
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Needles are ˝-1 inch long, stiff, straight
or curved, rhombic in cross-section, ending in a
blunt point, lustrous dark green in color. |
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Cones are 5-7
inches long |
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- 'Conica' - dense, compact cone of
foliage, 25 feet tall and 12 feet in
diameter
- 'Maxwellii' - low, spreading,
flat-topped, twice as broad as high
- 'Nidiformis' - top is often flat,
3 feet tall and 6 feet across
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'Pendula'
- Weeping form
- 'Procumbens' - prostrate form with
horizontal branches
- 'Pumila' - dwarf, dense, broad, flat
topped almost 3 times as broad as high
- 'Pygmaca' - very small,
dense, conical form about as wide as it is
tall
- 'Pyramidata' - narrow, slender pyramid
- 'Repens' - low, with procumbent or
arching branches
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