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Dragon Spruce

Picea asperata

Dragon Spruce
Photo: matsuyuki on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Pinaceae (Pine family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
E. Qinghai to Inner Mongolia
Climate
temperate

About

Picea asperata (dragon spruce; Chinese: 雲杉) is a species of spruce in the family Pinaceae. It is native to western China, from eastern Qinghai, southern Gansu and southwestern Shaanxi south to western Sichuan.

Uses

Picea asperata is occasionally grown as an ornamental tree in Europe and North America. It is also used in the production of stringed instruments.

Other Picea plants

Norway Spruce · Interior spruce · Alcock's Spruce · Orange Spruce · Picea austropanlanica · Sargent's Spruce · Brewer's Spruce · Chihuahua Spruce · Qinghai Spruce · Engelmann Spruce · Farrer spruce · White Spruce

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Picea asperata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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