What is a European spruce?
European spruce is known botanically as Picea abies and more often as Norwegian spruce, tall evergreen tree, with dark green, needle and long, scaly cones that become brown in injury. European spruce naturally occurs on the European continent and was introduced in North America and other parts of the world. These types of spruce trees grow best in cold areas with high height, but are able to adapt to different types of soil if they receive a large amount of moisture. The situation was so out of hand that European spruce had to be re -established in some areas. Now most of the wood comes from specially managed artificial forests, which are set aside for spruce planting.
The main reason for growing spruce trees is for wood that is useful for construction, paper and production of musical instruments. European spruce is also popular as a garden plant and is especially demanded as a Christmas tree. Since the end of World War II has happened for Edinburgh, London, New York and Washington D.C. forIst European spruce trees for Christmas as a continued gesture of thanks and Goodwill from Oslo, Norway.
with care for spruce trees is not too many problems, because European spruce is quite resistant species. They are very long -term, with some trees growing at the age of over 200 years and are able to produce clones through root branches. These types of spruce trees show rapid growth in view of the correct conditions of the environment and can reach heights of over 100 feet (30.48 m); The highest known European spruce is in Bosnia Herzegovina Sutjeska National Park and racks 207 feet (63.0936 m) high.
The main danger for growing spruce trees comes from acid rain and other pollution problems that obscure the growth of the tree and a spruce beetle that can destroy the tree bark. The prevailing land and environment conditions also affect the quality of wood and as in the case of spruce wood from GermanyAnd it may not be good enough, especially not for the production of musical instruments. Currently, the best European spruce wood from Slovenia, Croatia, Switzerland, Italy and France comes.