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Part of spruce genus Picea in 🌲︎ cedar / fir / hemlock / larch / pine / spruce family Pinaceae in 🌲︎ conifer order Pinales.
Native to 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 Scandinavia, the 🇪🇪 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 Baltics, European 🇷🇺 Russia, and ⛰ mountainous parts of 🇪🇺 Europe. 🗺 🌍︎ Map (scroll down and right), 🗺 map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48) (color key), 🗺 map (eastern 🇺🇸 USA). Invasive > 🇺🇸 USA
Imported to North America as an ornamental. Large old trees are indeed grand.
Uses by native peoples(Ethnobotany database) On No-Plant List by Seneca Nation of Indians. (pages 59 and 63)
Most sources say nine of the ten ♐︎ Schöningen spears were made from the 🪵 wood of this tree. (The other spear was made of Scots pine Pinus sylvestris. )
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🏠︎ spruce genus Picea
Scots pine Pinus sylvestris