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Purple Spruce

Picea purpurea

Also called Purple Cone Spruce, Purple Coned Spruce

Purple Spruce
Photo: Ken Marshall from Taipei, Taiwan, CC BY 2.0
Family
Pinaceae (Pine family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
E. Qinghai to China (NW. Sichuan, Gansu)
Climate
temperate

About

Picea purpurea, also known as purple cone spruce and purple-coned spruce, is a species of spruce in the family Pinaceae. It is found only in China. It is likely to be a hybrid species produced by crosses between Picea likiangensis and Picea wilsonii, or possibly involving other species.

Other Picea plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Picea purpurea 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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