Picea rubens
red spruce
Silviculture
(silvics courtesy of Silvics Manual, USFS)
Wood Technical Fact Sheet
(courtesy of Hardwoods of North America, Forest Products Lab, USFS)
Fire Effects On
(courtesy of U.S. Forest Service, Fire Effects)
From Virginia Tech w/Photos
(Big List courtesy of VT Dendrology)
Species Documentation and Data
(The BEST conifer data on the Internet, Gymnosperm Database, Editor C. J. Earle)
North American Timber Types
(courtesy About Forestry)
The Great American Coniferous Forest
(courtesy About Forestry)
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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