Picea canadensis

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Picea canadensis in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Picea canadensis, BSP. (P. alba. Link. P. laxa, Sarg.). The native White Spruce. Figs. 2943, 2944. Tree, usually 60-70 ft., with ascendent branches and usually pendent branchlets: bark light brownish gray: lvs. slightly curved, acute or acutish, more or less bluish green, 1/3 - 3/4 in. long, of a strong, aromatic odor when bruised: fls. pale red or yellowish: cones cylindric- oblong, light brown and glossy, 1 1/2 - 2 in. long; scales orbicular, with usually entire margin, thin and flexible. From Labrador to Alaska, south to Mont., Minn., and N. Y. S.S. 12:598. G.F. 8:223 (adapted in Fig. 2944); 9:355. F.S. 21:2251. C.L.A. 11:311. F.E. 29:81. Gn. M. 4:19. M.D.G. 1899:80. A decorative species of dense habit when young and with rather light bluish green foliage; it endures heat and drought much better than the two preceding species. The most important garden form is var. caerulea, Schneid. (P. alba caerulea, Carr. P. alba argentea and var. glauca, Hort. Abies rubra violacea, Loud.). Of dense habit with light bluish green or almost silvery white lvs. Var. pendula, Schneid. (P. alba pendula, Beissn.). With pendulous branches. An important geographical variety is var. albertiana, Rehd. (P. albertiana, S. Br. P. alba albertiana, Beissn.). Tree, to 100 or occasionally 150 ft., of narrow pyramidal habit: branchlets sometimes minutely pubescent: lvs. more crowded: lf .-cushions longer: cones shorter with more rigid rounded scales. Alberta. M.D.G. 1905:117 (as P. alba). Section II. Casicta, Mayr. Lvs. quadrangular or more or less compressed: scales of cone loosely appressed before maturity, rhombic and usually elongated, erose-denticulate, and more or less wavy on the margin. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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