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Picea jezoensis, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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Picea jezoensis

Dark-bark spruce · also Ezo spruce, Yezo spruce, Jezo spruce

ConiferEvergreen
22
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
5
cities
21 in
median trunk (53 cm, 12 measured)
23 yr
median age (50% have a planting date)

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Picea jezoensis is a large evergreen tree native to northeast Asia, featuring a broad conic crown and needle-like leaves that are dark green above and blue-white below with stomata. Its cones are pendulous and mature to pale brown. It thrives in cold, humid temperate rainforests near the Pacific Ocean.

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
    1123 yr22 in
  2. Ottawa · Canada
    6——
  3. Tokyo · Japan
    2——
  4. Helsinki · Finland
    2——
  5. Vancouver · Canada
    1—2.0 in

Traits

Form
Conifer
Foliage
Evergreen
Mature height
98.4–164 ft

Trunk diameters across every city: median 21 in, mean 18 in, 90th percentile 29 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

  • Changbai Mountains mixed forests
  • Southern Korea evergreen forests

Boreal Forests/Taiga

  • Sakhalin Island taiga

Other Picea in the catalogue

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

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