Difference between revisions of "Picea pungens"
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|common_names=Blue spruce;Colorado blue spruce;épinette bleue;pino real | |common_names=Blue spruce;Colorado blue spruce;épinette bleue;pino real | ||
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|name=Picea parryana | |name=Picea parryana | ||
|authority=Sargent | |authority=Sargent | ||
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|hierarchy=Pinaceae;Picea;Picea pungens | |hierarchy=Pinaceae;Picea;Picea pungens | ||
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|elevation=1800–3000m | |elevation=1800–3000m | ||
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;Idaho;N.Mex.;Utah;Wyo. | |distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;Idaho;N.Mex.;Utah;Wyo. | ||
| − | |discussion=<p>Limited hybridization occurs between Picea pungens and P. engelmannii (R.Daubenmire 1972; R.J. Taylor et al. 1975).</p><!-- | + | |discussion=<p>Limited hybridization occurs between <i>Picea pungens</i> and <i>P. engelmannii</i> (R.Daubenmire 1972; R.J. Taylor et al. 1975).</p><!-- |
| − | --><p>Blue spruce (Picea pungens) is the state tree of Colorado (as Colorado blue spruce) and Utah.</p> | + | --><p>Blue spruce (<i>Picea pungens</i>) is the state tree of Colorado (as Colorado blue spruce) and Utah.</p> |
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|publication title=Gard. Chron. | |publication title=Gard. Chron. | ||
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|genus=Picea | |genus=Picea | ||
|species=Picea pungens | |species=Picea pungens | ||
Latest revision as of 20:21, 5 November 2020
Trees to 50m; trunk to 1.5m diam.; crown broadly conic. Bark gray-brown. Branches slightly to strongly drooping; twigs not pendent, stout, yellow-brown, usually glabrous. Buds dark orange-brown, 6–12mm, apex rounded to acute. Leaves 1.6–3cm, 4-angled in cross section, rigid, blue-green, bearing stomates on all surfaces, apex spine-tipped. Seed cones (5–)6–11(–12)cm; scales elliptic to diamond-shaped, widest below middle, 15–22 × 10–15mm, rather stiff, margin at apex erose, apex extending 8–10mm beyond seed-wing impression. 2n =24.
Habitat: Midmontane forests
Elevation: 1800–3000m
Distribution
Ariz., Colo., Idaho, N.Mex., Utah, Wyo.
Discussion
Limited hybridization occurs between Picea pungens and P. engelmannii (R.Daubenmire 1972; R.J. Taylor et al. 1975).
Blue spruce (Picea pungens) is the state tree of Colorado (as Colorado blue spruce) and Utah.
Selected References
None.