Red spruce, Picea rubens, is a common forest tree of the Acadian forest region ... Black spruce is the most important pulpwood species of Canada and is also commercially important in the lake ...

Due to its highly fragmented population, it has been labeled as an endangered species. The natural habitat of the Serbian spruce is limited to north-facing limestone slopes between a half and one mile ...

The cones are cylindrical and upright and the shape is very narrow with rigid, upright, or horizontal branching as opposed to "drooping" branches on some spruce ... species of the individual tree.