Picea mean Spruce or pitch pine?

Picea is the modern scientific name for the spruce genus, but its application to just spruces, like the application of Pinus to just pines and Abies to just firs (and indeed the narrowing of those categories in English), is a modern convention that basically became a thing faute de mieux.

1. What is the Latin word for pitch pine?
2. What does Picea mean?
3. What is spruce common name?
4. Where is Picea spruce from?

What is the Latin word for pitch pine?

Latin name: Pinus rigida Mill.

What does Picea mean?

noun. Pic·​ea. ˈpisēə, ˈpīs- : a genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (family Pinaceae) having acicular leaves that are keeled on both surfaces and borne individually on persistent peg-shaped bases and cones that become pendulous and have reflexed scales see spruce.

What is spruce common name?

Spruce is useful as a building wood, commonly referred to by several different names including North American timber, SPF (spruce, pine, fir) and whitewood (the collective name for spruce wood).

Where is Picea spruce from?

Picea glauca 'Densata': Black Hills Spruce

Native to the Black Hills of South Dakota, it is commonly used for a holiday tree in the mid-west. Grows 6-12” per year, maturing at 20-40' in 40-80 years.