Spruce shrubs and trees are conifers from the genus Picea, which includes 35 species. Spruce trees and shrubs are characterized by a branch structure, called a pulvinus, where the needles attach. This ...
BRIMSON — Bob and Colleen Christianson cut the fire risk to their property this summer when they cut and mulched dead and dying balsam fir trees left in the wake of a spruce budworm outbreak. “It’s ...