Picea abies Boehmerwald (European Spruce)

Picea abies Boehmerwald (European Spruce) is a big, fast-growing evergreen coniferous tree that may reach heights of 115–180 feet. The shoots are glabrous and orange-brown. The leaves are needle-like in appearance with blunt ends, long, quadrangular in cross-section, and dark green on all four sides with faint stomatal lines. The seed cones are 9–17 cm long (the longest of any spruce) and feature scale ends that are bluntly to sharply triangular. Green or reddish in colour, they mature to brown 5–7 months after pollination. The seeds are dark brown in colour, long, and have a pale brown wing.