Picea orientalis (L.) Link (Oriental spruce), leaves
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2005 – 2012
Picea orientalis (L.) Link (Oriental spruce), leaves are very short 1/4 to 1/2" long 4-sided lustrous dark green blunt or rounded apex quadrangular in cross-section with 1-4 lines of stomata on each surface, these are the shortest needles of the picea species arranged at and above the horizontal plane upper appressed and hiding the stem