Alaska's state tree is the Sitka spruce (picea sitchensis ... Its bark is coarser and darker. However, the cones are better indicators. Black spruce cones are pudgy, rarely over an inch long ...

Englemann spruce, blue spruce, and Sitka spruce are native to ... to limbs mostly at the top of the trees. Fir trees also have similar looking cones, primarily at the top, but tend to stand ...

When you are trying to identify fir trees, look for erect and upturned cones growing off ... America including the red spruce, Colorado blue spruce, black spruce, Sitka spruce, white spruce ...

As Magellan sailed around the world and Copernicus planted the sun at the center of the solar system, seeds from a grown Sitka spruce landed on the remains of a mature tree that had toppled over.

Crews will hoist the 80-foot tree up on the West Lawn f the Capitol. It's a tradition dating back 60 years. The towering Sitka Spruce is in D.C. following a long journey from Alaska. The tree is ...