The white spruce, whose scientific name is picea glauca, is a large evergreen coniferous tree, usually 15 to 30 m tall, but can grow to 40 m tall and up to 1 m in trunk diameter.
Also known as Canadian spruce, skunk spruce, cat spruce, Black Hills spruce, western white spruce, Alberta white spruce, and Porsild spruce, it is native to the boreal and temperate forests of North America.
The leaves are needle-like, and diamond-shaped in cross-section, with blue-green above and blue-white below.
The tree can live for hundreds of years, with an estimated average life span of 250 to 300 years.
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