White Spruce Seedling Bundle

The white spruce typically grows 60-80' tall and has a cone-shaped crown. The bark is dark gray or gray-brown and scaly. It has pale bluish needles when young, dark bluish-green when mature on small woody pegs that have sharp tips. The needles are pungently aromatic when crushed. Needles have a glaucous, white waxy coating, hence the specific epithet and common name. Its fruits are slender cones that are 2" in length. The cone scales are rounded and soft at the ends, and soft and flexible when mature. Seeds are narrow-winged when mature in one season, cones drop during winter after opening and shedding seeds.