Meyer's Spruce

Taxobox
name = Meyer's Spruce
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Pinophyta
classis = Pinopsida
ordo = Pinales
familia = Pinaceae
genus = "Picea"
species = "P. meyeri"
binomial = "Picea meyeri"
binomial_authority = Rehder & E.H.Wilson

Meyer's Spruce ("Picea meyeri"; zh-cp|c=白杄|p=báiqiān) is a species of spruce native to Nei Mongol in the northeast to Gansu in the southwest and also inhabiting Shanxi, Hebei and Shaanxi.

It is a medium-sized evergreen tree growing to 30 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 0.8 m. The shoots are yellowish-brown, glabrous or with scattered pubescence. The leaves are needle-like, 13-25 mm long, rhombic in cross-section, bluish-green with conspicuous stomatal lines. The cones are cylindric, 7-11 cm long and 3 cm broad, maturing pale brown 5-7 months after pollination, and have stiff, smoothly rounded scales.

It is closely related to Dragon Spruce from western China.

It is occasionally planted as an ornamental tree; its popularity is increasing in the eastern United States, where it is being used to replace Blue Spruce, which is more disease-prone in the humid climate there. The wood is similar to that of other spruces, but the species is too rare to be of economic value.

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External links

* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200005311 Flora of China: "Picea meyeri"]
* [http://www.conifers.org/pi/pic/meyeri.htm Gymnosperm Database: "Picea meyeri"]