Picea rubens
red spruce
Silviculture
(silvics courtesy of Silvics Manual, USFS)
From Virginia Tech w/Photos
(Big List courtesy of VT Dendrology)
North American Timber Types
(courtesy About Forestry)
The Great American Coniferous Forest
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Recent Champion: 123' height, 39' spread, 169" circumf., Great Smoky Mountains National Park, NC
National Register of Big Trees
Quick Stats
Common Names: Abetina rossa, Adirondack spruce, black spruce, blue spruce, Canadese rode spar, Canadian red spruce, Canadian spruce, double spruce, eastern spruce, epicea rouge du Canada, he balsam, he-balsam, Hudson-fichte, kanadensisk rod-gran, North American red spruce, picea roja de Canada, picea rossa del Canada, red spruce, spruce pine, yellow spruce.
Habitat: The soils where red spruce and its associates grow are mostly acid Spodosols, Inceptisols, and sometimes Histosols with a thick mor humus
Description: is one of the more important conifers in the northeastern United States and adjacent
Canada.
Uses: It is used for making paper, for construction lumber, and for musical stringed instruments. Its many uses rival those of eastern white pine (Pinus strobus)
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