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, 10-15' spread
Buds: up to .25" long, chestnut brown, not resinous
Leaves: evergreen, radially arranged on upper side of stem, .5-.75" long, needlelike, curving, with horny point, quadrangular in cross section, glaucous green or blue-green, 2-5 bands of stomata on each face of needle
Twigs: slender, glaucous dark yellow-brown or pale brown in second year
Flowers: monoecious, males pale red becoming yellow, females purple
Fruit: pendulous cylindrical cones, 1-2.5" long, .5-.75" wide, green or purple when young, light brown later
Bark: ashy brown, thin, flaky, scaly
