Common Spruce

name botanical:

Picea abies

family:

Pinaceae

species:

conifer

height:

30 - 50 m (99 - 164 ft)

needle:

ca. 1,50 cm (0.8 in) long, green, slightly pungent

fruit:

cones ca. 15 cm (5.9 in) long

bark:

first brown later drab cracked

root:

peg roots and plate roots

location:

half-shade - sun

soil:

sandy up to clayey

ph value:

acidic - slightly alkaline

stature:

Branches arranged in whorls, in the lower half of stem mostly bent down