Picea Genus - The Spruces
Pinaceae - The Pine Family
| Picea | engelmanii Engelman Spruce |
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| Engelmann Spruce, Picea engelmanni, growing around Summit Lake above Crested Butte, Colorado, elevation 10,400 feet, July 6, 2007. Tree height is 70 to 80 feet. Trunk diameter is 38 cm., bark plates, thin, flakey, 5 cm. by 3 cm.. New growth length is 50 mm. Needles are 20 mm long by 1mm. wide. Smaller trunk diameter is 16 cm. Bark plates are not well developed on younger trees. | |||||
Picea |
pungens Blue Spruce |
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| Blue Spruce, Picea pungens, growing with its feet adjacent to the water of Taylor creek above Almont, Colorado, 8,450 feet, July 5, 2007. Tree height is 80 feet, trunk dia 60 cm. , circumference 230 cm., bark plates 5 cm by 125 cm. Needles are sharp and prickly, length 16 mm, width 1.5 mm. New growth length on lower branches is 93 mm long. | |||||
