White spruce

White spruce (Picea glauca)

Description

A soft-needled spruce, Picea glauca, native to northern North America. White spruce has a soft, pale-yellow wood that has a straight grain. It is used for lumber, millwork, and pulp wood.

Synonyms and Related Terms

Picea glauca; Picea alba; spruce pine; eastern spruce; bog spruce; swamp spruce; shingle spruce; skunk spruce

White spruce (Picea glauca)

Density	23-33 ppcf

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  White spruce (Picea glauca)

Authority

• G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 759

• F. H. Titmuss, Commercial Timbers of the World, The Technical Press Ltd., London, 1965 Comment: 23-33 ppcf

• Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996

• Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997