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Picea abies, the Norway spruce or European spruce, a species of spruce native to Northern, Central and Eastern Europe
The fresh shoots of many spruces are a natural source of vitamin C. Captain Cook made alcoholic sugar-based spruce beer during his sea voyages in order to prevent scurvy in his crew. The leaves and branches, or the essential oils, can be used to brew spruce beer.
In Finland, young spruce buds are sometimes used as a spice, or boiled with sugar to create spruce bud syrup. In survival situations spruce needles can be directly ingested or boiled into a tea. This replaces large amounts of vitamin C.
Growth tips have been quickly getting larger and more deep green. When still new they were good to eat, but now they're getting to be too tough to chew.
Taken with Canon EF 70-200mm F2.8 USM IS.
Nombre científico o latino.- Picea abies.
Nombre popular.- Abeto rojo, Falso abeto.
Familia.- Pinaceae.
Las futuras piñas, inicialmente antes de alcanzar su desarrollo y color marrón-parduzco, pasan por por el precioso color rojizo-morado.
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29-october-2018: waves grew visibly, minute after minute, and they will reach the 6 meters in height less than 2 hours after (that is the maximum reachable in the upper Adriatic: force 6 of Douglas scale).
This stormy wind with a strong isobaric gradient, affected a large area of the Adriatic basin, the contiguous Dinaric Alps and the eastern Alpine Arch.
Nature was not (anymore?) Accustomed to a similar phenomenon and the damage is considerable, especially to the Spruce forests of the Dolomites and Carnia (Eastern Alps of Italy); but it is right to underline, besides the rarity of the event, especially within the Alps, also the fact that the split or uprooted trees (a huge number) were almost all Spruces (Picea abies/Picea excelsea) that for years suffer due to droughts, low snow and high temperatures, thus resulting in the most weakened by pests and lichens with the wind that was right for them more easily than it would have been 20 years ago. Other trees, less sensitive to climate change than Spruce trees (in need of deep wet and cool soils, now instead increasingly dry and warm), in fact, resisted.
A spruce tree (Picea species, Pinaceae) with cones in focus in front of a nearly full moon in its waxing Gibbous phase at 96.06% illumination.
The tree is either a black spruce (P. mariana) or white spruce (P. glauca).
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
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Picea pungens (blue spruce)
National Bonsai and Penjing Museum
US National Arboretum
Washington DC
21 Nov 2025
Not the greatest example of an elegant bonsai but who can resist that yarrow plant in bloom?
original frame: DSC09848
acc nr 87653-299, North American Collection
**added to database
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Norway spruce is a large, fast-growing evergreen coniferous tree growing 35–55 m tall and with a trunk diameter of 1 to 1.5 m. It can grow fast when young, up to 1 m per year for the first 25 years under good conditions, but becomes slower once over 20 m.
The Norway spruce grows throughout Europe from Norway in the northwest and Poland eastward, in the mountains of central Europe, southwest to the western end of the Alps, and southeast in the Carpathians and Balkans to the extreme north of Greece. The northern limit is in the arctic, Its eastern limit in Russia is hard to define, due to extensive hybridization and intergradation with the Siberian spruce but is usually given as the Ural Mountains.
Source: Wikipedia.
Picea abies 'Nidiformis’
I previously posted an instant film version of this tree, where I wrote of its history. This was taken about the same time, February 2022.
I'm happy to say it survived a drastic root pruning and has sprouted new spring growth, albeit minimum.
Lomo 800 Color Print film. Home scan of print by Blue Moon Camera.
Photographed a Blue Spruce amongst the deciduous tress in the dull fall colors across s pond out at Cedar Meadows Resort and Spa located in Mountjoy Township in the City of Timmins Northeastern Ontario Canada
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Picea pungens (blue spruce)
National Bonsai and Penjing Museum
US National Arboretum
Washington DC
21 Nov 2025
Not the greatest example of an elegant bonsai but who can resist that yarrow plant in bloom?
original frame: DSC09849
acc nr 87653-299 North American Collection
**added to database
This looks like a Norway Spruce (Picea abies) . I like the texture and color of the cones. I see it on my bike rides on my trip around the neighborhood.
Southern KY, USA
www.arborday.org/trees/treeguide/TreeDetail.cfm?ItemID=924
A Late Winter Hokku
Green spruce needles —
Cones shielding the seeds;
Deep blue winter sky.
(What are hokku? masashimono.wordpress.com/ )
I say "late" winter, because I live by the Natural Calendar, which shows the 8 landmarks, as the earth revolves around the sun. To understand this Natural Calendar, just go here:
edleathers4.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-wheel-of-year.html
The New Year begins on the Winter Solstice, as the sun returns from its migration south, giving us more warmth and sunlight, as it moves northward.
Picea orientalis, commonly known as the Oriental spruce or Caucasian spruce, is a species of spruce native to the Caucasus and adjacent northeast Turkey. It is a large coniferous evergreen tree growing to 30–45 m tall or 98–145 feet (exceptionally to 57 m), and with a trunk diameter of up to 1.5 m (exceptionally up to 4 m). The Caucasian Spruce can also be found in Northern Iran, though its numbers have decreased due to deforestation. Quoted from Wikipedia
An interesting satyr in the waterfall area. Not sure its ID.
Euptychia picea possibly.
It seems slightly different from Euptychia rufocincta based on the eyespots on the hindwing underside.
Any suggestion/comment on the ID is much appreciated.
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I often cycle past this grove of Sitka Spruce. Trees on the edge of the forest provide an eye-level view of vigorous growth!