Picea glauca seed
LATIN NAME: PICEA GLAUCA
COMMON NAME: White Spruce
The white spruce is a stately, conical evergreen of the cool northern forests, its fine, short, bluish-green, four-angled needles clothing dense, upswept branches, and its slender, cylindrical, pale-brown cones hanging from the upper crown. The needles carry a faint, pungent scent when crushed, and their waxy, glaucous bloom gives the tree its name. Native to the boreal forests of North America, from Alaska across Canada to Newfoundland and south into the northern United States, it is one of the hardiest of all spruces, growing in uplands, along lake and stream margins and right up to the tree line, where it dwindles to a shrubby form. Prized for its fine, strong, pale timber and its stately form, it is a treasured tree of the forest, the windbreak and the garden.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The white spruce has a real and distinguished place in forestry, wood science, ecology and horticulture. Foresters and wood scientists study its timber, its growth and its management, since its fine, strong, pale wood makes it one of the most valuable timber trees of the region, used in building, paper and fine woodwork. Ecologists examine its role in the boreal forest, its distribution across a vast northern range and its value to wildlife, and botanists study its relationships within the spruce genus. Horticulturists value its bluish-green, conical form as an ornamental and windbreak tree, and its extreme hardiness has made it a subject of research on trees for cold climates. For a tree of such fine value, the white spruce has a rich and continuing record of study.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
Ecologically, the white spruce is a generous tree of the northern forest. Its cones feed seed-eating birds such as crossbills, its dense crown gives cover and shelter through the year, and it is a foundation species of the boreal forest. Economically, its fine, strong timber is used in building, paper and woodwork, and its stately, conical form makes it a valued ornamental and windbreak tree in cold regions. For a grower it is a rewarding and stately tree, and for a gardener it brings a bluish-green, cone-bearing, conical tree to the cool garden.
To grow the White Spruce from seed, to bring the white spruce on, stir the winged seeds into a bag of moist peat, chill them for a while, then press them onto the surface of a tray of seed compost and just cover them with a light dusting of fine soil.
stir the winged seeds into a bag of moist peat, chill them for a while, then press them onto the surface of a tray of seed compost, and keep the young spruces with just a light dusting of fine soil over them.
LATIN NAME: Picea glauca
COMMON NAME: White Spruce
The white spruce is a handsome, upright, conical, evergreen conifer of the cool forests, and its fine, short, bluish-green, four-angled needles and its fine, pendulous, cylindrical cones of the many winged seeds have made it a treasured and stately tree of the region. It grows as an upright, conical, evergreen conifer, reaching up to thirty metres or more, with the upright, tapering trunk bearing the dense, conical crown of the fine, short, stiff, bluish-green, four-angled needles and, through the year, the fine, pendulous, cylindrical, pale-brown cones of the many winged seeds. It is a species of the coniferous tree in the pine family, and it is native to the cool forests of the northern North America, while it is prized for its fine, strong wood and its stately form, and it is known as the white spruce.
The white spruce belongs to the pine family, Pinaceae, and it is a species of the upright, conical, evergreen conifer, native to the cool forests of the northern North America, while it is prized for its fine, strong wood and its stately form, and it is known as the white spruce. It is prized for its fine, short, bluish-green, four-angled needles and its stately, conical form.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The white spruce has a real and distinguished place in the research. It has been studied in the forestry and the wood science, since its fine, strong, pale wood has made it one of the most valuable of the timber trees of the region, and researchers have examined its timber, its growth and its management, while the value of the spruce wood has drawn attention in the international forestry press as a tree of the northern forests. The plant has also been studied in the botany and the ecology, since it is a native of the cool forests of the northern North America, and its relationships, its distribution and its role in the forest have been examined, while the ecology of the northern conifers has been of continuing interest, and its fine, short, four-angled needles have been of interest to the botanists. The species has also been studied in the horticulture, since its fine, bluish-green, conical form has made it a treasured tree of the garden and the windbreak, and researchers have examined its growth, its form and its cultivation, while its value as an ornamental and a windbreak tree has been of continuing interest, and its fine, stately, conical form has been of value. For a tree of such fine value, the white spruce has a rich and continuing record of study.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
Ecologically, the white spruce is a generous tree of the garden. Its fine, pendulous, cylindrical cones feed the seed-eating birds, and its fine, dense, bluish-green crown gives a fine cover and a shelter to the birds through the year.
Its economic value is real. The white spruce is prized for its fine, strong, pale wood and its stately form, and its value has drawn attention in the international forestry press as a tree of the northern forests, while its fine, strong timber has been used in the building, the paper and the fine woodwork of the region, and its fine, conical form in the garden and the windbreak. For a grower, the white spruce is a rewarding and stately tree, and for a gardener it brings a bluish-green, cone-bearing, conical tree to the cool garden. Treat the seeds to a cold, damp rest first — stir them into a bag of moist peat or vermiculite, keep it chilled for a while, then press the seeds onto the surface of a tray of seed compost and just cover them with a sprinkle of fine soil, water from below and keep the tray in light shade.
Picea glauca, the white spruce, is a species of spruce native to the northern temperate and boreal forests in North America, from central Alaska to as far east as the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland, and south to northern Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, northwestern Pennsylvania, upstate New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine; there is also an isolated population in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. It is also known as Canadian spruce, skunk spruce, cat spruce, Black Hills spruce, western white spruce, Alberta white spruce, and Porsild spruce. Picea glauca, commonly called white spruce,Black Hills Spruce is an extremely hardy evergreen conifer that is native to upland areas and lake/stream margins stretching from Alaska across the boreal forest of Canada to Newfoundland, dipping south to Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and New York. 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. Genus name is reportedly derived from the Latin word pix meaning pitch in reference to the sticky resin typically found in spruce bark.