Picea abies: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Pinopsida
- Order
- Pinales
- Family
- Pinaceae
- Genus
- Picea
- Species
- Picea abies
- Scientific Name
- Picea abies
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Picea abies
Picea abies, the Norway spruce or European spruce, is a species of spruce native to Northern, Central and 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 for it being planted for its wood, and is the species used as the main Christmas tree in several countries around the world. It was the first gymnosperm to have its genome sequenced. The Latin specific epithet abies means "like Abies, Fir tree".
...Picea abies in languages:
- Belarusian
- Елка звычайная
- Bokmål
- gran
- Bulgarian
- Обикновен смърч
- Catalan
- avet roig
- Catalan
- pícea
- Chinese
- 北歐雲杉
- Croatian
- Obična smreka
- Czech
- smrk ztepilý
- Danish
- Rød-gran
- Danish
- Rødgran
- Dutch
- Fijnspar
- English
- Norway spruce
- English
- Finnish spruce
- English
- spruce fir
- Estonian
- harilik kuusk
- Finnish
- Metsäkuusi
- Finnish
- Kuusi
- French
- Épinette de Norvège
- French
- Épicéa commun
- German
- Gemeine Fichte
- German
- Gewöhnliche Fichte
- German
- Rotfichte
- Hungarian
- Közönséges lucfenyő
- Italian
- Abete rosso
- Italian
- Peccio
- Japanese
- オウシュウトウヒ
- Japanese
- ドイツトウヒ
- Japanese
- ヨーロッパトウヒ
- Japanese
- ドイツマツ
- Korean
- 독일가문비나무
- Latvian
- Parastā egle
- Lithuanian
- Paprastoji eglė
- Luxembourgish
- Fiicht
- Modern Greek
- Ερυθρελάτη
- Polish
- Świerk pospolity
- Portuguese
- Espruce
- Russian
- Ель обыкновенная
- Serbian
- Европска смрча
- Slovak
- smrek obyčajný
- Slovene
- navadna smreka
- Swedish
- Gran
- Turkish
- Avrupa Ladini
- Ukrainian
- Ялина звичайна
- Ukrainian
- Смерека
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Picea abies
- Picea alcoquiana
- Picea asperata
- Picea aurantiaca
- Picea austropanlanica
- Picea brachytyla
- Picea breweriana
- Picea chihuahuana
- Picea crassifolia
- Picea engelmannii
- Picea farreri
- Picea glauca
- Picea glauca × engelmannii
- Picea glehnii
- Picea jezoensis
- Picea koraiensis
- Picea koyamae
- Picea likiangensis
- Picea linzhiensis
- Picea mariana
- Picea martinezii
- Picea maximowiczii
- Picea meyeri
- Picea morrisonicola
- Picea neoveitchii
- Picea obovata
- Picea omorika
- Picea orientalis
- Picea polita
- Picea pungens
- Picea purpurea
- Picea retroflexa
- Picea rubens
- Picea schrenkiana
- Picea sitchensis
- Picea smithiana
- Picea spinulosa
- Picea wilsonii
- Picea × fennica
- Picea × lutzii
- Picea × notha
Child Taxa
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