Picea abies
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Picea abies, the Norway spruce or European spruce, is a species of spruce native to Northern, Central and Eastern Europe.
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An 1885 illustration of P. abies, showing the cones and leaves.
Young female cone
Cones of P. obovata are short and have rounded scales.
Picea obovata
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Picea obovata, the Siberian spruce, is a spruce native to Siberia, from the Ural Mountains east to Magadan Oblast, and from the Arctic tree line south to the Altay Mountains in northwestern Mongolia.
Picea abies
…Eastern Europe. It has branchlets that typically hang downwards, and the longest cones of any spruce, 9–17 cm long. It is very closely related to the Siberian spruce (Picea obovata), which replaces it east of the Ural Mountains, and with which it hybridises freely. The Norway spruce has a wide distribution, being…
Picea obovata Urals 1
P. abies
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