Picea

Two small mammals are also considered strictly endemic, the Bibundi bat (Chalinolobus egeria) and the pitch shrew (Crocidura picea, CR). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Phragmites communis.physocarpus. picea species. picture in landscape. pie plant. ❋ Unknown (1906)

According to Bochart, it arose from the confusion of the meaning of the Phœnician word ‘picea,’ which signified a ‘diviner.’ ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (1847)

The silver-fir, of a whitish colour, like rosemary under the leaf, is distinguished from the rest, by the pectinal shape of it: The cones not so large as the _picea_, grow also upright, and this they call the female: For I find botanists not unanimously agreed about the sexes of trees. ❋ John Evelyn (1663)

There are of the fir two principal species; the _picea_, or male, which is the bigger tree; very beautiful and aspiring, and of an harder wood, and hirsute leaf: And the silver-fir, or female. ❋ John Evelyn (1663)

- A daily supplement of lignan from Norway spruce (picea abies) could reduce the incidence of hot flushes by over 50 per cent, suggests a new clinical trial from the US. ❋ Unknown (2009)

HOW: Pair this plant, also known as hamamelis mollis, with red-stem dogwoods, picea omorika, stewartia pseudocamellia, Ken Janeck rhododendron, black mondo grass and hellebores for an incredible winter garden. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Elytra depresfa, obfcure picea, fubti - lisfime punAata, 'capite thora* ceque fere longiora. ❋ Gustaf Von Paykull (1789)

Frondoix. [in Epigrammate:] Ante quidem in 'virentibus frondofa picea ramis. ❋ Unknown (1705)

15-Mar-2007 - Linnea's HMRLignan, the plant lignan isolated and purified from the Norway spruce (picea abies), reduced markers of inflammation linked to heart disease, says new research from Italy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The _picea_ (already describ’d) grows on the Alps among the pine, but neither so tall, nor so upright, but bends its branches a little, which have the leaf quite about them, short and thick, not so flat as the fir: ❋ John Evelyn (1663)