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Picea glauca
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Popular names for Picea glauca: English - White Spruce.

Species native to North America, boreal Canada - Western Alaska, increases along with Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, Populus tremuloides, Abies balms, Betula lutea and Acer saccharum. Port pyramidal, columnar, dense crown, 14-21 m high and 30-45 cm diamteru trunk, root surface, thin crust, less2.5 cm thick, gray-purple. Branches thin, gray-green becoming brown-orange and then brown. Ovoizi bud, obtuse, brown, 3-6 mm long. Wood light, soft, light yellow, almost white, with the sapwood of the same color. Leaves linear, entire edge, top acute nervatiuni parallel, 1-3 cm long, black or green glauca glauca, arranged spiral, continuing for 7-10 years. Red or yellow flowers, blooming spring. Pollination is done by the wind. Cone 2,5-5 cm long, almost Sesi, male cones are pale red to yellow and the females are green open and red-brown seeds before maturation, appear in May-June, persistent on the tree. Seeds oblong-cylindrical, arranged in a spiral towards the central axis, remain in the cone 12 weeks at temperatures of 5 ° C for an aging atrificiala germinate well after 2 years of extraction, should be protected from frost.

Growth rate - average. Longevity - 250-300 years.

Grow on soils rich in humus, clay, sandy, slightly alkaline, acid, well drained. Tolerant to drought and shading. Temperature to which to acclimatize is -58 ° C.

Is multiplied by seeds or cuttings. 21 days to stratify seeds.

Diseases and pests - Choristoneura fumiferana, mites and afidele. Afidele can create problems when very hot summer and drought.

Cultivars and varieties - var. albertiana 'tapered', var. albertiana 'Alberta Blue', var. albertiana 'Alberta Globe', var. albertiana 'Tiny', var. porsildii, 'tapered', 'Sanders Blue', 'Arneson's Blue Variegated', 'Blue Wonder', 'Cecilia', 'Blue Plants', 'Rainbow's End'.

Picea glauca is ideal for protecting forests and tree Craciun.

Wood of Picea glauca is used to manufacture panels, interior decorations, musical instruments, canoes.

An infusion of cones of Picea glauca is good against urinary problems. Resin has laxative properties. Decoction of bark from international good for arthritis, is tonight. Scaorta infusion is good for respiratory problems, tuberculosis. Of dried root powder is made for children.

Picea glauca was one of the first conifers grown and propagated in vitro.

References

Adrian Bloom - Gardening with Conifers - Frances Lincoln Publishers, 2001

Bruce MacDonald - Practical Woody Plant Propagation for Nursery Growers - Timber Press, 1987

Burton V. Barnes, Warren H. Wagner - Michigan Trees - University of Michigan Press, 2004

YesNiel E. Moerman - Native American ethnobotany - Timber Press, 1998

FJ Bigras, Stephen J. Colombo - Conifer Cold Hardiness - Springer, 2000

Geoffrey AJScoot - Canada's Vegetation A World Perspective - McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995

Hugh M. French, Olav Slaymaker - Canada's Cold Environments - McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997

Les Viereck - Alaska Trees and Shrubs - University of Alaska Press, 2007

Mary L. Duryea, Gregory N. Brown - Seedling Physiology and reforestation Success - Springer, 1984

Michael G. Barbour, William Dwight Billings - North American Terrestrial Vegetation - Cambridge University Press, 1999

Richard DeGraaf, Paul E. Sendak - Native and Naturalized Trees of New England and Adjacent Canada - UPNE, 2006

PJ Burton, C. Messier, DW Smith - Towards Sustainable Management of the Boreal Forest - NRC Research Press, 2003

S. Mohan Jain, Pramod K. Gupta - Protocol for Somatic Embryogenesis in Woody Plants - Springer, 2005

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