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Norway Spruce (Picea abies)

Common Name: Norway Spruce
Scientific Name: Picea abies
Other Names: Common Spruce

Leaf: Dark Evergreen; Needles curved upward and forward and arranged in spirals;
shed after several years.
Flower: None.
Fruit: Cone; Cylindrical, both male and female on same tree; Female cones are larger
than males and turns greyish or reddish-brown at maturity; 10-18 cm long hanging near
the branch tips.
Twig: Branches, dropping secondary branches; hairless twigs, blunt; creamy green but
becomes light orange-brown when mature.
Bark: Reddish brown; wrinkled or papery shreds; becomes hard round and scales with age.
Wood: Fine; even texture; consistently straight grain.

Facts About This Tree:
1. A Norway Spruce is gifted by the Norwegian government to the US every year, to be
used as a Christmas tree at Rockefeller centre in New York as sign of gratitude for
helping Norway and Europe during WWII.
2. Their dense wood makes them wind resistant, so they are used extensively as windbreaks
throughout Canada and the United States.
3. It is the fastest growing, largest, most widespread and most disease resistant
spruce in the northern hemisphere.
4. The Norway spruce is used in forestry for timber and paper production.

Lat, Long: 43.73617, -79.78748
Diameter (DBH): 38.9 cm
Last Year Modified: 2015
Carbon Stored in this Tree: 282.461 kg of C
Equivalent CO2: 1035.587 kg of C

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Reference
1. Linda Kershaw. 2001. Trees of Ontario. Edmonton, AB Canada. Lone Pine Publishing.
2. Farrar, J. L. 2007. Trees in Canada. ON. Canadian Forest Service.
3. UPM Timber Raw Material. Spruce, Whitewood. N.p., n.d. retrieved on June 10, 2015
from http://timber.upm.com/en/timber-products/raw-material/whitewood/Pages/default.aspx.
4. NorwaySpruce.com – World Wide Resource for Norway Spruce. NorwaySpruce.com – World
Wide Resource for Norway Spruce. N.p., n.d. retrieved on 10 June 2015 from
http://www.norwayspruce.com/#uses.
5. Norway Spruce. The Wood Database. N.p., n.d. retrieved on. 10 June 2015 from
http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-identification/softwoods/norway-spruce/.
6. Photo Credit: Plamen Agov studiolemontree.com [CC BY-SA 3.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
7. Photo Credit: Veli Holopainen [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
8. Photo Credit: Greg Hume (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
9. Photo Credit: Axel Kristinsson from Reykjavík, Iceland
(Norway Spruce Uploaded by russavia) [CC BY 2.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
10. Photo Credit: Adamantios (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL
(http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons.
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