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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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