A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of some 37 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the …

Nov 11, 2025 · Description of the evolution, biology, distribution, ecology, and uses of the species in the conifer genus Picea (spruce).

Dec 19, 2025 · spruce, (genus Picea), genus of about 40 species of evergreen ornamental and timber trees in the conifer family Pinaceae, native to the temperate and cold regions of the …

The genus name, Picea, is thought to be derived from the Latin word, pix, which means "pitch" and refers to the sticky resin that is found on the tree's bark. The specific epithet, abies, refers …

Picea: an ancient Latin word for the spruces, derived from pix, a word for pitch.

The genus Picea, commonly known as spruce, offers so much variety in size, shape, color and utility in the landscape that it is easy to believe one or more choices will fill any imaginable …

Trees evergreen; crown broadly conic to spirelike; leading shoot erect. Bark gray to reddish brown, thin and scaly (with thin plates), sometimes with resin blisters (especially in Picea …

Spruce is any of the large, coniferous tree species belonging to the genus Picea of the family Pinaceae, distributed across the temperate and boreal regions in the Northern Hemisphere. …

Picea abies, commonly called Norway spruce, is a large pyramidal evergreen conifer that is native to the mountains of northern and central Europe east to the Urals.

Picea jezoensis subsp. hondoensis is a good example of a spruce with distinctly pale leaf undersides, contrasting with the dark green upper surface (just visible on a few leaves on the …