Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Red spruce, Picea rubens, is a common forest tree of the Acadian forest ...
Blue spruce (Picea pungens f. glauca), also called Colorado blue spruce, is a beautiful tree with blue-gray needles. Being colorful and relatively drought tolerant, it’s a favorite of many homeowners ...
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.
Hybrid zones provide an opportunity to study the effects of selection and gene flow in natural settings. We employed nuclear microsatellites (single sequence repeat (SSR)) and candidate gene ...