About

Picea sitchensis, the Sitka spruce, is a narrowly conical coniferous tree to 50 m with wide-spreading branches when old. The bark is purple-brown becoming grey; the sharply pointed, dark-green, needle-like foliage is striking. It produces cylindrical, green then pale-brown seed cones. The fastest-growing of all spruces � a major timber and ornamental tree.

About the genus

Picea, the spruces, are evergreen trees with rigid, needle-like leaves arranged singly all round the shoots and narrow, leathery-scaled cones borne near the ends of the shoots. A large genus of ornamental conifers ranging from large trees to compact dwarf cultivars.

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