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Picea morrisonicolaPicea morrisonicola foliage and cone. Chi-Tou, Taiwan 溪頭植物.Source:
Flickr (cropped from original).
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Red spruce with cones braving the harsh conditions on top of Grandfather Mountain. These trees don't grow very tall up there due to the strong winds.
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Orinda, California, United States
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Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada
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2011-12-10 Upper Austria, district Rohrbach - Ameisberg region (680 msm Quadrant 7448/2).German name: FichteThis is a spruce monoculture forest; fir and broadleaf trees (beech first and foremost, but also birch, a pioneer) however already struggle to grab a hold there.
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2010-10-10 Hungary, Nyugat-Dunntl - Western Transdanubia, county Vas (840 m AMSL).This place lies a short distance below rott-k - Geschriebenstein peak; the foreground is a more or less natural spruce-beech-fir forest - with Fagus sylvatica and spruce shown in the photo -, while in the background you can see spruce monoculture - Picea abies - older than the (now dismantled) Iron Curtain (trees at least 60-80 years old, many a hundred or more).Even though the Austrian border is not far you can only see Hungarian territory here.So while the forests on the Hungarian side of this mountain are more natural by magnitudes than those on the Austrian side there are still a few monocultures there.
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2013-01-12 Vienna, district III., Schweizergarten, cultivars - Excursion Fischer (198 msm Quadrant 7864/1).German name: Serbische FichteNot an uncommon cultivar in parks, those in Schweizergarten however are not as slim and gracile as they "should" be.
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Pequot Lakes MN, May 11 2007.
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Picea engelmannii Parry ex Engelm. var. engelmannii. Lower limbs of an Engelmann Spruce that had caught a fallen cone. Not a posed picture; as it was found. Please consider the tree debris behind and to the side as tinsel! Otherwise I suppose I should have removed it but at the time was just trying to capture exactly how it was.Cones are shorter than Blue Spruce, Picea pungens, and not as papery. This cone bothered me somewhat in terms of being representative of Engelmann's Spruce in terms of its size and bract characteristics. Based on the likely length of the leaves/needles (probably mostly around 2 cm), this cone is easily in the 8 to 10 cm (roughly 4", possibly a little longer) range which is unusually large (cones for this species are usually less than 6 cm, so well less than 3" long. Also the bracts on Engelmann's Spruce cones are often more entire and rounded rather than as above. However, they can also be erose as above, and the shape of the cone above is much more in the expected range compared to the more oblong to cylindric shape of a Blue Spruce cone. The two spruces commonly grow together (although I did not see any P. pungens at this particular spot) and in the same elevational ranges but supposedly do not hybridize.Young twigs have minute hairs whereas those of Blue Spruce are glabrous.Needles not a sharp as Blue Spruce and they tend to be more on the upper side of the twig whereas with Blue Spruce they are spread equally more or less around the twig. September 5, 2011, Wasatch Plateau, Huntington Canyon, Emery County, Utah, approx. 7,185 ft. elev. Most commonly found at 8,000 ft and above however often occurs between 6,500 and 8,000 ft. in Utah.
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Pine Cone
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I love pine trees!! My fav!
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Siberia, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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The Mongolians love to tie (mostly) blue prayer scarves to cairns, posts and occasionally trees.
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2013-01-12 Vienna, district III., Schweizergarten, cultivars - Excursion Fischer (198 msm Quadrant 7864/1).German name: Kaukasus-Fichte, Orient-Fichte, Morgenlndische Fichte, Sapindus-Fichte
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Picea englemannii
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Orinda, California, United States
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Sakhalin Oblast, Russia
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Murmansk Oblast, Russia
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Description: Picea × lutzii forest, near Skagway, Alaska. Date: 15 September 2008, 11:38. Source:
Trees. Author:
a.dombrowski.
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