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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.
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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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.
A sub-alpine meadow bursts with purple spires of Elephant Head (Pedicularis groenlandica) and other wildflowers downslope from Crater Lakes, James Peak Wilderness, Colorado. A dark band of Sub-Alpine Fir (Abies lasiocarpa) and Engelmann Spruce (Picea engelmannii) shield the tundra from view. If you look closely, it is clear that each of the Elephant Head spikes has dozens of little purple trunks. I'm not sure what it was about this particular summer, but Orobanchaceae of all kinds seemed to be having a banner year in 2018.
I hope the tail end of summer is treating everyone well. I spent the day drying peaches from the neighbor's tree and harvesting apples and crabapples from local yards. I am attempting to make delicious fermented cider from the apples... we'll see how it goes. I have improved a bit over the last few years, but I feel there is still ample knowledge to gain.
While picking apples this afternoon, I managed to disturb quite a large hornet nest that was concealed amongst the leaves and twigs of a Golden Delicious in one neighbor's yard. When I jostled the branches nearby with my basket pole-picker, what must have been a particularly angry guard dive-bombed my almost-9-year-old from about 15 feet up the tree. He screamed so shrilly I thought he'd been stung, but he also managed to swing an empty bucket he was holding at the insect, and knocked it off course. Following that little episode of fatherly competence, he opted to stay in the EuroVan and watch me through the windows (though with the sliding door still open so he could continue to jibber-jabber with an audience).
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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