Every plant lover should know that trees also bloom. When that happens and what the sometimes very inconspicuous flowers look like is often an unanswered question. Here you can find out something about the flowering of the spruce.
The spruce blossom is difficult to recognize as such
The waiting time until the first blossom is about ten to 40 years, because the spruce is a late developer. But she can also get very old. The flowering period is between April and June. Female flowers grow together as cones, from which the spruce cones later develop. The egg-shaped male flowers are only about one to two centimeters tall.
The essentials in brief:
- Flowering time: April to June
- first flowering after 10 to 40 years
- female flowers: in red cones, reddish-green single flowers
- male flowers: about 1 cm long, turning pink or red later to yellow
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A young spruce bears the female flowers first only in the upper part of the crown, later evenly distributed.