Sitka spruce

Picea sitchensis

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Picea sitchensis, the Sitka spruce, is a large, coniferous, evergreen tree growing to almost 100 m (330 ft) tall, with a trunk diameter at breast height that can exceed 5 m (16 ft). It is by far the largest species of spruce and the fifth-largest conifer in the world (behind giant sequoia, coast redwood, kauri, and western redcedar); and the third-tallest conifer species (after coast redwood and coast Douglas-fir). The Sitka spruce is one of the few species documented to...

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  1. (c) Mike Patterson, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC), enviado por Mike Patterson
  2. (c) Wikipedia, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picea_sitchensis

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