Trees · question 4
Try rolling a needle between your thumb and forefinger.
- It rolls: the needle is four-sided, stiff and prickly: The needles grow all round the twig on small woody pegs.
- It doesn’t roll: the needle is flat
All species with this feature
Still possible
- Norway spruce (Picea abies)
- Colorado blue spruce (Picea pungens)
- Yew (Taxus baccata)
- Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
- European silver fir (Abies alba)
- Nordmann fir (Abies nordmanniana)