Tips for identifying spruce: leaves angular in cross section (except for P. omorika), twigs roughened with persistent leaf bases, pendulous cylindrical cones don't shatter at maturity
Size: tree, 50-60' average height at maturity
Buds: dark brown, not resinous, terminal bud has awl-shaped scales at base
Leaves: evergreen, more or less 2-ranked, .5-1" long, .06-.08" wide, flat, tips short-pointed or rounded, shiny dark green, stomatal lines only on underside, leaf petioles brown
Twigs: brown, pubescent
Flowers: monoecious, male flowers like strawberries, .5-.75"
Fruit: 1.25-1.75" long, .5-.75" wide, pendent, purple when young, shiny brown later
Bark: thin, coffee brown, exfoliating in platelike scales
