Stats

Lifespan: Up to 200 yrs
Size: Huge
Diet: Photosynthetic
Biome: Temperate coniferous forest
Range: Europe
Movement: Sessile
Breeding: Seeds
Defense: Spines
Status: Common

About

The Norway spruce is a towering conifer native to Europe, capable of reaching 55 metres tall, with distinctive drooping branchlets and long cylindrical cones. A clonal root system in Sweden has been dated to over 9,500 years old, making it one of the oldest known living organisms on Earth.

Life cycle

1.
seed
A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2.
sprout
A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3.
sapling
A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4.
mature
Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Family: Pinaceae
Genus: Picea
Species: Picea abies