A North American spruce with yellow-green or blue-green needles and cylindrical cones, found principally in Canada.
Picea glauca, family Pinaceae
Example sentencesExamples
White cedar is generally a sub-canopy tree, in comparison to white spruce and balsam fir.
Only such hardy species as aspen, black and white spruce, Labrador tea, and tamarack can withstand such conditions - which they do by actively transporting water out of their living cells at the start of winter.
The shoot elongation ended in the first week of August, which is typical of most white spruce at other sites.
For some distance, the highway passed through boreal forest, where white spruce and balsam poplar are the dominant species.
This year's tree, a 67-year-old, 74-foot white spruce hails from Ottawa National Forest in Michigan and was decorated with several thousand handmade ornaments representing the tree's home state.
Definition of white spruce in US English:
white spruce
noun
A North American spruce with yellow-green or blue-green needles and cylindrical cones, found principally in Canada.
Picea glauca, family Pinaceae
Example sentencesExamples
Only such hardy species as aspen, black and white spruce, Labrador tea, and tamarack can withstand such conditions - which they do by actively transporting water out of their living cells at the start of winter.
For some distance, the highway passed through boreal forest, where white spruce and balsam poplar are the dominant species.
White cedar is generally a sub-canopy tree, in comparison to white spruce and balsam fir.
The shoot elongation ended in the first week of August, which is typical of most white spruce at other sites.
This year's tree, a 67-year-old, 74-foot white spruce hails from Ottawa National Forest in Michigan and was decorated with several thousand handmade ornaments representing the tree's home state.