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Key to Conifers
Picea - Spruce
Trees; needle leaves alternate, more or less round
or square in cross-section (often will roll between the fingers);
seed cones pendulous, mature in a single season, remain intact
at maturity.
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Picea orientalis- Caucasian Spruce - Branchlets.
(Photographed at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond,
VA)
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Picea pungens 'Royal Knight' - Colorado Blue
Spruce.
(Photographed at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond,
VA)
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Picea pungens 'Royal Knight' - Colorado Blue
Spruce.
(Photographed at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond,
VA)
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