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, the Norway spruce or European spruce, is a species of spruce native to Northern, Central and Eastern Europe.
Picea obovata
…made from untreated siberian spruce are the material of choice for the surfaces of modern world-class velodromes. Siberian spruce and Norway spruce (Picea abies) have turned out to be extremely similar genetically and might be considered two closely related subspecies of P. abies. Siberian spruce hybridises…
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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.