Taxon

Picea purpurea

 
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Picea purpurea - purple-cone spruce
Image: Ecker, Michael E. - The Dawes Arboretum
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Common name: purple-cone spruce
Family: Pinaceae (pine family)
Synonym: Picea likiangensis var. purpurea
Distribution: China
IUCN Red list: Near threatened
Hardiness: USDA Zone 4
Life form: Evergreen tree
Comments: A densely branched, conical evergreen to 60' tall. Needles are especially dark green, very compressed and pointed. Cones are 2-3" long, purple to violet when forming; ripening brown in autumn
Links: • Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy) • World Flora Online

Locations

  • 1: AZA: AZ13 (AZ13) • Accession: D1988-0048.002 • Provenance: Cultivated of Garden Origin
  • 2: CON: CQ14 (CQ14) • Accession: D1988-0048.001 • Provenance: Cultivated of Garden Origin
  • 3: FLT: CR26 (CR26) • Accession: D2000-0006.001 • Origin: China • Provenance: Wild of Known Origin
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