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Picea engelmannii
Also called Engelmann's spruce, Mountain Spruce, Columbian Spruce, Silver Spruce, Engelmann Blue Spruce, Rocky Mountain White Spruce, White Spruce
Picea engelmannii, with the common names Engelmann spruce, mountain spruce, and silver spruce, is a species of spruce native to western North America. It is highly prized for producing distinctive tone wood for acoustic guitars and other instruments, it is mostly a high-elevation mountain tree but also appears in watered canyons.
Engelmann spruce is mostly a higher-elevation mountain tree, in many areas reaching the tree line, but at lower elevations occupies cool watered canyons. It grows from 520–3,650 m (1,710–11,980 ft) above sea level, rarely lower towards the northwest.
Native Americans made various medicines from the resin and foliage.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Picea engelmannii 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.
