Leaves/needles with heavy cuticle that allows them (there are exceptions) to maintain their foliage year round. Most are diecious (two houses) having a male and a female plant. Needles have triangular cross sections in most spruces and the needles of pine trees are usually flat and most often arise in pairs or groups of 3 from a single site.
its a tree
A spruce tree is a coniferous evergreen (pine needles and cones) and most maple trees are deciduous (leaves fall off).
No, the spruce tree was not named after Richard Spruce. The name "spruce" is derived from the Old French term "Pruce," which referred to products from Prussia, where the trees were originally imported. Richard Spruce was a 19th-century botanist known for his work on the classification of plants, but he is not the namesake of the spruce tree.
A spruce is an evergreen tree of the family Abies.
No, a spruce tree is not a monocot; it is a gymnosperm and belongs to the group of dicots. Monocots and dicots are classifications of flowering plants based on characteristics such as seed structure, leaf venation, and root systems. Spruce trees, which are conifers, produce cones instead of flowers and have needle-like leaves.
A spruce tree.
A spruce tree lives in areas with moist soils, for example, the slopes of the Rocky Mountains, near streams.
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Spruce is an evergreen conifer.
It should be--- Behind my house is a tall blue spruce tree.
Spruce would be the answer.
The Sitka Spruce.