The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is being cut down today before making its trek to Manhattan where it will be covered in 50,000 LED lights shining throughout the holiday season. The Norway spruce ...

Norway spruce (‘Picea abies’), an evergreen tree native to Europe, is the largest of the spruces in the eastern United States. Growing to 70 feet tall or more, the shape is pyramidal with ascending ...

From the Northern European Steppes, the Norway spruce amazes people with its impressive longevity and size. The tree can rise to over 150 feet and has long drooping branches that give its distinctive ...

Deep inside the forests of northern Finland, scientists discovered something that sounded almost impossible at first: ...

Scientists have mapped the gene sequence of Norway spruce (the Christmas tree) -- a species with huge economic and ecological importance -- and that is the largest genome to have ever been mapped. The ...

An evergreen commonly found within the central Ohio landscape is the Norway spruce (Picea abies). The tree has a pyramidal shape with a strong central leader (trunk). The dark-green needles are a ...

An 80-foot-tall (24-meter) Norway spruce from the Binghamton area has been selected as this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and will be cut down and trucked to New York City next week, ...

The Acrocona Norway spruce (Picea abies ‘Acrocona’) is an enchanting conifer, sometimes called the red-cone spruce. This spruce has new needles of bright green, which mature to a pleasant dark green.