Wholesale
Nursery Stock Price List
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Picea
Abies
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Norway
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Our current inventory of Picea Abies (Norway
Spruce) is presented below by eight (8) available sizes along with their
individual wholesale price (cost varies per size and quantity).
Picea
Abies (Norway Spruce)
Zone 2, light or dark green foliage |
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$
100.00 |
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6' (feet)
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$ 120.00
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7' (feet)
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$ 140.00
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8' (feet)
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$ 165.00
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9' (feet)
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$ 200.00
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10' (feet)
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$ 270.00
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11' (feet)
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$ 300.00
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12' (feet)
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$ 320.00
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The
Gerdes Fact Sheet
Scientific
Classification
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Kingdom...:
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Plantae |
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Division...:
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Pinophyta |
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Class...:
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Pinopsida |
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Order...:
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Pinales |
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Family...:
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Pinaceae |
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Genus...:
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Picea |
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Species...:
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Picea Abies |
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The Norway Spruce (Picea Abies) is a large
evergreen coniferous tree growing to 115 to 180 feet tall and with a trunk
diameter of up to 3 to 5 feet thick.
It is native to northeast Europe from Norway
and Poland eastward, and also in the mountains of central Europe, southwest
to the western end of the Alps, and southeast in the Carpathians and Balkans
to the extreme north of Greece. The northern limit is in the arctic, just
north of 70°N in Norway. Its eastern limit in Russia is usually given
as the Ural Mountains.
The Norway Spruce is one of the most widely
planted spruces, both in and outside of its native range, used in forestry
for timber and paper production, and as an ornamental tree in parks and
gardens.
It is also widely planted for use as a
Christmas tree. Every Christmas, the Norwegian capital city of Oslo provides
the cities of New York, London and Washington D.C. with a Norwegian spruce,
which is placed at the most central square of each city. This is mainly
a sign of gratitude for the aid these countries gave during the Second
World War.
The shoots of the Picea Abies (Norway Spruce)
are orange-brown and glabrous (hairless).
The leaves are needle-like, 0.5 to 1.0
inch long, quadrangular in cross-section (not flattened), and dark green
on all four sides with inconspicuous stomatal lines.
The cones are 3.5 to 7.0 inches long (the
longest of any spruce), and have bluntly to sharply triangular-pointed
scale tips. They are green or reddish, maturing brown 5 to 7 months after
pollination.
The seeds are black, 4 to 5 millimeters
long, with a pale brown 15 millimeters (about 0.6 inch) wing.
The tallest measured tree, 207 feet tall,
is in Perucica Virgin Forest, Sutjeska National Park, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
It can grow fast when young, up to 40 inches
per year for the first 25 years under good conditions, but becomes slower
once over around 65 feet tall.
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