Black Spruce is found mainly in central and northern BC. It is also called swamp spruce or bog spruce because it mainly grows in the vicinitiy of swamps and bogs. The wood of a black spruce has long fibres making it valuable as pulpwood for making paper products such as facial tissue. N 53 39.919 W 122 56.649
The latin name for Black Spruce is Picea mariana.
Black spruce is a short tree and only grows to a height of 15 - 20 meters and a diameter of 25 centimeters. It has stiff branches and a very dense knobby looking crown. Black spruce is tolerant of poor growing conditions such as cold and poorly drained soils. Black spruce commonly grows alone or with lodgepole pine and white spruce and black spruce forests are very abundant in wildlife.
The needles are short only about 12mm long and are blunt, so it would make a good spruce to hide a geocache in, however you may get wet feet hiding it in this tree.
For more information on black spruce, a handy field reference guide can be found here: https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/library/documents/treebook/treebook.pdf
All hides for this Spruce Geo Art Series are camoed pill bottles or bison tubes. Each container contains a logsheet sealed in a tiny zip lock bag. Please bring your own pencil. This cache is not hidden at the posted coordinates, however all the information you need is on this cache page.
Credit: Black Spruce tree image obtained from: Tree book - Learning to Recognize Trees of British Columbia, Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks - B.C. Parks - p.72
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