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    The blue spruce (Picea pungens), also commonly known as green spruce, Colorado spruce, or Colorado blue spruce, is a species of spruce tree native to North...
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    A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea (/paɪˈsiː.ə/ py-SEE-ə), a genus of about 40 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in...
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    Picea chihuahuana, the Chihuahua spruce, is a medium-sized evergreen tree growing to 25–35 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 1 m. It is native...
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  • 23 March 2011. "Previous Winners | Colorado Blue Spruce Award". Colorado Blue Spruce Award. Blue Spruce Award Committee. Archived from the original on...
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    cluster; the female cone is still immature (olive green). Lodgepole pine. Blue spruce with cones Young female cones of loblolly pine receptive for pollination...
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  • in spruce trees. They infect the new buds of native spruce trees in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in the spring. They also attack blue spruce to...
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    become reality. The Magician's Secret was also nominated for the 2019 Blue Spruce Award by the Ontario Library Association. He is currently working on...
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    Picea meyeri (redirect from Meyer's Spruce)
    being used to replace Blue Spruce, which is more disease-prone in the humid climate there. The wood is similar to that of other spruces, but the species is...
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  • activity. The book has also received several awards, including the Colorado Blue Spruce Book Award (1996) and the Pacific Northwest Library Association Young...
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    destroy forests of spruce trees including Engelmann, White, Sitka, and Colorado blue spruce. Adults average 4 to 7 mm in length. The spruce beetle Dendroctonus...
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    2010 Evergreen Young Adult Book Award Shortlisted for The 2010 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award Shortlisted for The North Carolina School Library...
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    The southern Appalachian spruce–fir forest is an ecoregion of the temperate coniferous forests biome, a type of montane coniferous forest that grows in...
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    often have yellower-green leaves, while others (e.g. blue spruce, Picea pungens) may develop blue or silvery leaves to reflect ultraviolet light. In the...
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    The Spruce Pine Mining District is a swath of the valley of the North Toe River in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northwestern North Carolina. The area is...
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    Picea sitchensis, the Sitka spruce, is a large, coniferous, evergreen tree growing to almost 100 meters (330 ft) tall, with a trunk diameter at breast...
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    Today more than ever. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Cuomo, M. (1999). The Blue Spruce. Sleeping Bear Press. Hoobler, D., Hoobler, T., & Cuomo, M.M. (1998)...
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  • mulberry (Morus alba) Empress tree (Paulownia tomentosa) Norway spruce (Picea abies) Blue spruce (Picea pungens) Mountain pine (Pinus mugo) Black pine (Pinus...
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    engelmannii, with the common names Engelmann spruce, white spruce, mountain spruce, and silver spruce, is a species of spruce native to western North America. It...
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    Library Association. 1 April 2010. Retrieved 18 July 2021. "2007 Colorado Blue Spruce Award". FictionDB. n.d. Retrieved 17 July 2021. "The 2006 Cybils Awards"...
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    areas, blue spruce (Picea pungens), with patches of quaking aspen. Echo Lake is high enough to be in the subalpine forest, where Engelmann spruce (Picea...
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    (8.1 m) tall Colorado blue spruce which was obtained from an unnamed tree nursery in New Jersey. On May 5, 2012, the blue spruce was declared dead by the...
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    The spruce grouse (Canachites canadensis), also known as Canada grouse, spruce hen or fool hen, is a medium-sized grouse closely associated with the coniferous...
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    Picea abies (redirect from Norway spruce)
    Picea abies, the Norway spruce or European spruce, is a species of spruce native to Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. It has branchlets that typically...
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  • for Young Adults, a Junior Library Guild Selection, and was a Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award Nominee. Sixteen-year-old identical twins Harry...
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    includes the North Rim and the Kaibab Plateau. Spruce-fir forests characterized by Engelmann spruce, blue spruce, Douglas fir, white fir, aspen, and mountain...
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    New York 35 feet (11 m) West side of Sherman Plaza 1931–1933 Living Blue spruce Washington, D.C. 25 feet (7.6 m) West side of Sherman Plaza 1934-1938...
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  • illustrators. The Forest of Reading consists of ten reading programs: Blue Spruce Award - ages 4-7 (JK–Grade 2), English, picture books Silver Birch Express...
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    Spruce Pine is the largest town in Mitchell County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,175 at the 2010 census. Spruce Pine was founded...
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    Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer, such as a spruce, pine or fir, or an artificial tree of similar appearance, associated with...
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  • for the Blue Spruce Awards in 2007. Society of Children's Authors and Illustrators Canadian Society of Children's Authors, etc. Blue Spruce Awards Winners...
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