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Picea smithiana, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
(c) Ryan E. Gray, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · CC BY-NC
#1859 most planted

Picea smithiana

Morinda spruce · also West Himalayan spruce

ConiferEvergreen
16
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
4
cities
14 in
median trunk (36 cm, 7 measured)

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Picea smithiana, also known as morinda spruce or West Himalayan spruce, is an evergreen conifer native to the western Himalaya and adjacent mountains. It grows at high altitudes, typically between 2,400–3,600 m, in forests alongside other conifers.

Where it grows

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

  1. London · United Kingdom
    7——
  2. Vancouver · Canada
    5—13 in
  3. Paris · France
    3—19 in
  4. Boston · United States
    1——

No city in this list records planting dates for this species, so age is blank throughout.

Traits

Form
Conifer
Foliage
Evergreen

Trunk diameters across every city: median 14 in, mean 14 in, 90th percentile 21 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 Conifer Forests

  • Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests

Other Picea in the catalogue

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

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