Oriental spruce Pinaceae Picea orientalis Carr.   symbol: --
	Leaf: Evergreen, four-sided needles 1/4 to 1/2 inch long, emerald green with blue-white lines of stomata, shiny and tending to curve upwards, blunt tipped and four sided. Each needle borne on a raised, woody peg (sterigma). Flower: Monoecious; males cylindrical and reddish; females purplish green, spring. Fruit: Chestnut brown cone, 2 to 4 inches long, cone scale margins entire; seed disseminated in the fall and cones tend to drop their first winter. Twig: Orangish brown, finely hairy (may need a hand lens). As with all spruces, needleless twigs covered by short sterigmata (short pegs). Bark: Grayish brown on surface, more reddish brown beneath with irregular, fine flaky patches, becoming irregularly ridged and furrowed. Form: A medium to large tree that commonly grows to 50 feet in the landscape, with a dense narrowly conical form, and horizontal to upward sweeping branches that have drooping lateral branches.
	Picea orientalis is planted in the highlighted USDA hardiness zones to the left and is not known to widely escape cultivaton.