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Picea asperata, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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Picea asperata

Dragon spruce

Conifer
48
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
6
cities
25 in
median trunk (64 cm, 41 measured)
23 yr
median age (83% have a planting date)

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Picea asperata, also known as dragon spruce, is a species of spruce native to western China. It is classified as Vulnerable (VU) according to IUCN Red List criteria.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Boston · United States
    3923 yr27 in
  2. Paris · France
    4——
  3. Ottawa · Canada
    2——
  4. London · United Kingdom
    1——
  5. Helsinki · Finland
    1—2.0 in
  6. Quebec City · Canada
    1—5.1 in

Traits

Form
Conifer

Trunk diameters across every city: median 25 in, mean 27 in, 90th percentile 52 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests

Other Picea in the catalogue

20 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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