this species tree is a bit big for most backyards. but there are lots of great dwarf cultivars that would fit in the smaller gardens. Bird’s Nest Spruce is named for a depression in the center ...

Identification of the Common North American Spruce Trees Spruces are large trees and can be distinguished by their whorled branches where needles radiate equally in all directions around the ...

In this episode of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces the White Spruce. This species is found in the North Woods of Northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Spruce trees that experienced long-term droughts were more resistant to future ones, while pines acclimatized to wet periods were more vulnerable.

It was growing in an area that, for thousands of years, had been too cold and inhospitable to sustain spruce trees of any size or species. And yet, here it was, healthy, strong, standing upright ...

"The work represents a big step forward in understanding natural pest resistance in white spruce and potentially for all conifer tree species," he adds. "It's like discovering that trees have ...