Sitka Spruce Picea sitchensis - Abies falcata, Abies sitchensis, Abies trigona, Picea menziesii

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Botanical Name:

Picea sitchensis

Family:

Pinaceae

Genus:

Picea

Species:

sitchensis

Common Name:

Sitka Spruce

Seeds Per Pound:
193,000
Quantity:
0.8 lb
Germination:
96%
Germination Test Type:
Actual
Purity:
99%
Height:
150-210 feet
Collection Locale:
Washington
Mineral
Crop Year:
2019
Minimum Hardiness Zone:
7
In Stock: 0.8 lb
Prices
  • Picea sitchensis

Items are priced on a curve, you can buy any 'bulk quantity' up to what we have in stock, some examples are:
1 packet (~ 0 seeds)
$5.95
1 oz (~ 12063 seeds)
$83.50
Growing Info, follow in order:
Scarification: Soak in water, let stand in water for 24 hours.
Stratification: none required.
Germination: sow seed 1/8" deep, tamp the soil, mulch the seed bed.
In a Nutshell:
* The bark is thin and scaly, flaking off in small circular plates 5–20 cm across. The crown is broad conic in young trees, becoming cylindric in older trees; old trees may have no branches in the lowest 30–40 m. The shoots are very pale buff-brown, almost white, and glabrous (hairless) but with prominent pulvini . The leaves are stiff, sharp and needle-like, 15–25 mm long, flattened in cross-section, dark glaucous blue-green above with two or three thin lines of stomata , and blue-white below with two dense bands of stomata.The cones are pendulous, slender cylindrical, 5–11 cm long and 2 cm broad when closed, opening to 3 cm broad. more...
* A lovely native tree from Alaska to California, where it is an important source of lumber, 1" needles, needs cool moist growing conditions to flourish, not well suited to the eastern U.S., cones to 4".