Spruce / Edinburgh

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Hello folks!

 

I'm trying to learn my conifers, so any help you can give me would be wonderful!

 

Attached are 2 PDFs, one gives 16 pictures of a Spruce tree here in Edinburgh showing its salient features, and a second is a "data table" of descriptive details gleaned from the tree (there were trees of the same species beside, hence the male cones included with the female for a dioecious plant)... (you should be able to use page-up and page-down to navigate pictures if you make the zoom right)

 

Many thanks in advance for any ID advice (and reasons for the ID)!

 

david

Conifer Form.pdf

PDF.pdf

[slasherscot]

stika spruce

[meteorquake]

Thank you so much - that does seem to fit the best! Hopefully I'll master them soon enough! - david

[daltontrees]

The bit that says Spiky: Very is a pretty good default for Picea sitchensis

[meteorquake]

Thank you, I'll remember that

[daltontrees]

If you ever have to work in one, you'll never forget it.

 

Standard quick check for me between Norway ad Sitka Spruce is to cup the end of a branch in the hand and start to squeeze slowly. If it's not unbearable, it's not Sitka. Norway can be a bit sore but it's a poofter compared to Sitka.

[meteorquake]

I think that would quickly start to hurt on this one! the cones of N Spruce are also 20cm (in my book), but these were just half that size...