page_title: Picea glauca
section_title: Uses
hierarchical_section_title: Picea glauca / Uses
caption_attribution_description: English: A bonsai forest planting of Black Hills Spruce (Picea glauca var. densata), with small dwarf boxwoods representing shrubs, on display at the 2008 exhibition of the Bonsai Society of Greater Hartford.
context_page_description: Picea glauca, the white spruce, is a species of spruce native to the northern temperate and boreal forests in North America. Picea glauca was originally native from central Alaska all through the east, across southern/central Canada to the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland. It now has become naturalized southward into the far northern United States border states like Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine; there is also an isolated population in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. It is also known as Canadian spruce, skunk spruce, cat spruce, Black Hills spruce, western white spruce, Alberta white spruce, and Porsild spruce.
context_section_description: Wildlife such as deer, rabbits, and grouse browse the foliage during the winter.
  White spruce is of major economic importance in Canada for its wood, harvested for paper-making and construction. It is also used to a small extent as a Christmas tree.
  The wood is also exported to Japan where, known as "shin-kaya", it is used to make go boards as a substitute for the rare kaya wood.
  Black Hills Spruce (Picea glauca var. densata) is used for bonsai (see image).
  White spruce is the provincial tree of Manitoba and the state tree of South Dakota.
caption: Black Hills spruce grown as bonsai
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