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Which picea???
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Posted by jorginho 7/8 (My Page) on Mon, Feb 8, 10 at 19:05
This one grows on an inland dune near still near the coast. Much larger specimens are found a few meters away, this one is only 6 m high or so. Looking at the cones I thought Picea Sitchensis. Needless are prickly but not as much as some Picea Sitchensis I found in another forest (seedlings, extremely sharp compared to this one).
By accident I received Picea Engelmannii seeds. The sender told me he send them by accident. So I started to look at these species and found out that it resembled very much this tree, but it also resembles Picea Sitchensis. The cones I found over there look like...both. The seeds are rather similar (I collected a lot of seeds over there in the woods)...
But can this grow in zone 7 (and now may be zone 8 nowadays but not last winters...)?? It seems to be selfsown. This is not a forestplantage, but a natural reserve over here in SW Holland. There are more Picea growing there at 1 km from the coast (Sitchensis, Abies, Omorika, Tsuga Heterophylla, Abies grandis/Alba and some Picea Pungens, among others). They all do well and regenerate a bit or in fact in large quantities...But could this be Picea Engelmannii?
What do you think?
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- Posted by bboy USDA 8 Sunset 5 WA (My Page) on
Mon, Feb 8, 10 at 20:34
| I think a closer view would be good. |
RE: Which picea???
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| Looks most like Picea sitchensis to me. But a close-up of the foliage and cones would help confirm it. Resin |
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