white spruce
Noun
Meaning
Picea glauca
Picea engelmannii (Engelmann's spruce)
Picea pungens (blue spruce)
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The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.
Can., Montreal QC. 28 p. Deficiencies of copper and iron in the foliage of white spruce on burned clearcuts in central British Columbia might be attributable to elevated pH levels.
In general, climates that do not preclude survival and growth of white spruce above ground are sufficiently benign to provide soil temperatures able to maintain white spruce root systems.
The fact is that most boreal forest stands are less than 100 years old, and only in the rather few areas that have escaped burning are there stands of white spruce older than 250 years (Rowe and Scotter 1973).
The longest cycles, possibly 300 years, probably occur in the western boreal in floodplain white spruce (Heinselman 1981).
White spruce open plantations also had smaller volume than white spruce sheltered plantations.