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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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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.
Gonia picea (Diptera, Tachinidae)
Dark Broadface
Graseulen-Raupenfliege
Tidlig Forårssnylteflue
Parasitfluga
flying a left turn, after visiting Taraxacum officinale (Dandelion - Löwenzahn)
Body length 12 mm
Exposure time (= flash duration): 50 µs = 1/20.000 s
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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
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.
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.
They are reddish-brown in colour. Easily found many of them on the Acacia trees, from early summer to later summer. Both adults and larvae feed on Acacia leaves. They are usually found on larger Acacia trees of trees taller than 2 meters.
This image is Straight Out Of Camera (SOOC).
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!