Picea meyeri Rehder & E.H.Wilson

Meyer's spruce (en), Épicéa de Meyer (fr)

Species

Gymnosperms > Pinales > Pinaceae > Picea

Characteristics

Trees to 30 m tall; trunk to 60 cm d.b.h.; bark gray-brown, irregularly flaking; crown conical; branchlets yellow-brown, pubescent or glabrous; winter buds brown, conical or ovoid-conical, slightly resinous, scales recurved. Leaves spreading radially, ascending on upper side of branchlets, spreading and curved upward on lower side, quadrangular-linear, slightly curved, 1.3-3 cm × ca. 2 mm, stomatal lines present on all surfaces, apex obtuse or subacute. Seed cones green, maturing brown-yellow, oblong-cylindric, 6-9 × 2.5-3.5 cm. Seed scales obovate, ca. 1.6 × 1.2 cm, striate on exposed part abaxially, base broadly cuneate or nearly orbicular, apex rounded or triangular-obtuse. Seeds obovoid, ca. 3.5 mm; wing pale brown, oblanceolate, ca. 1 cm. Pollination Apr, seed maturity Sep-Oct.
Life form annual
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality monoecy
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Mature height (meter) 30.0
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Root diameter (meter) 0.6
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Usage

Uses construction medicinal
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 30 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 12
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Images

Picea meyeri unspecified picture

Distribution

Picea meyeri world distribution map, present in China

Conservation status

Picea meyeri threat status: Near Threatened

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:676972-1
WFO ID wfo-0000482458
COL ID 4HQ3S
BDTFX ID 101598
INPN ID 611378
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Picea meyeri Picea mongolica Picea meyeri var. pyramidalis Picea meyeri var. mongolica Picea meyeri subsp. mongolica Picea meyeri f. pyramidalis