Picea purpurea

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Picea purpurea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Picea purpurea, Mast. Tree, to 60 ft. with wide-spreading branches: branchlets orange-yellow, hispid: winter buds broadly ovoid: lvs. quadrangular, more or less compressed, curved, obtuse or acutish, with 2 white bands above, green beneath, sometimes with a few stomata, 1/3 -1/2 in long: cones cylindric-oblong, 2 -2 1/2 in. long, purple, even more or less so at maturity; scales rhombic-oblong, contracted, narrowed from about the middle, erose-denticulate, acutish or truncate at the apex. W. China. Very handsome with its numerous purple cones. Section III. Omorika, Mayr. Lvs. more or less compressed, with glaucous lines above, green below: scales of cone closely appressed before maturity, broad and entire or nearly so 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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