Picea glauca
White Spruce
Pinaceae

Located in line of trees across the street from Budds building (multi-trunked specimen).

  • needles .5"-1" long, blue-green, stiff but not sharply pointed
  • tree lacks pendulous branchlets
  • stem color light brown/yellowish
  • twigs often have damage from Eastern Spruce Gall Adelgid (brown, thickened regions)
  • cones small, 2", bullet-shaped, smooth bracts
  • habit relatively stiff/rigid with horizontal side branches

    View Picea glauca page in the UConn Plant Database

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