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Picea smithiana
Also called West Himalayan Spruce, Indian Spruce, Himalayan Spruce
Picea smithiana is a species of evergreen tree in the family Pinaceae family. It is referred to by the common names Indian spruce, morinda spruce and West Himalayan spruce, and is a spruce native to the western Himalaya and adjacent mountains, from northeast Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, India to central Nepal. It grows at altitudes of 2,400–3,600 m (7,900–11,800 ft) in forests together with deodar cedar, blue pine and pindrow fir.
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 smithiana 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.
