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Picea ×albertiana
Also called Western white spruce
Picea × albertiana (Alberta spruce, Interior spruce, or hybrid white spruce) is a nothospecies that is a natural cross between white spruce and Engelmann spruce. It is a dominant forest species in interior British Columbia where the ranges of the two parent species overlap.
Interior spruce are hosts to the spruce beetle, which are deadly to infected stands of trees. For example, during the infestation that lead to the Bowron clearcut, 60% of mature spruce trees were killed in 175,000 hectares of forest over a few years.
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