Korean Spruce
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| Picea koraiensis Nakai |
Korean Spruce (Picea koraiensis; Jel koreiskaya in Russian, Hongpi yunshan in Chinese) is a species of spruce.
It is a medium-sized evergreen tree growing to 30 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 0.8 m. The shoots are orange-brown, glabrous or with scattered pubescence. The leaves are needle-like, 12-22 mm long, rhombic in cross-section, dark bluish-green with conspicuous stomatal lines. The cones are cylindric-conic, 4-8 cm long and 2 cm broad, maturing pale brown 5-7 months after pollination, and have stiff, smoothly rounded scales.
Its population is stable though low, and it there are no known protocols that protect it. It is found mostly in North Korea near the Yalu River, and in Russia near the Ussuri River. It is also believed that it might possibly also occur in areas in southern Ussuriland.
It is closely related to Koyama's Spruce, and treated as synonymous with it by some botanists.
[edit] References
- Conifer Specialist Group (1998). Picea koraiensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006.
