Oriental spruce
Picea orientalis (L.) Peterm.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 17 m
- wide
- 5.3 m
Pinaceae
Also called Caucasian spruce, Eastern spruce, Caucasian Spruce
Formerly Abies orientalis, Abies wittmanniana, Picea withmanniana, Picea wittmanniana, and 1 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- N. Türkiye to CaucasusKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 15 m to 18 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 4.6 m to 6.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Czech
- smrk východní
- Dutch
- Kaukasische spar
- French
- Épicéa d'Orient, Sapinette du Caucase, Épicéa du Caucase
- German
- Kaukasus-Fichte, Orient-Fichte, Morgenländische Fichte
- Chinese
- 東方雲杉
- Chinese (China)
- 东方云杉
- root
- Kaukoaziesche sparre
- Russian
- Ель восточная, Ель кавказская
- Turkish
- doğu ladini
- Italian
- Peccio del Caucaso, Abete rosso orientale
- Swedish
- orientgran
- Polish
- świerk kaukaski
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Picea orientalis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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