The Serbian spruce (Picea omorika), also Omorikafichte mentioned, is a coniferous tree in that of the spruces (Picea) from that the (Pinaceae). It was described for the first time 1876 by Josef Pancic.

Occurrence

The Serbian spruce is domestic in the border area of Serbia and Bosnia at the central run of the Drina. It prefers damp and cool climate, and is therefore in the southern range of its small circulation area a mountain tree. Since it is only in this border area endemically and thus for the illyrische beech forest stage intrazonal, the area is visited by many Botanikern, which study the Serbian spruce at the original location. The existence of the Serbian spruce at the endemic location captivate by its beauty: The slim, nearly zypressenartigen trunks coin/shape the landscape with their over all other exceeding extraordinarily tap-rich treetops. The Serbian spruce is regarded general as a Relikt from the Tertiary period time, which represents today a competition-weak, Konifere threatened in nature of becoming extinct.

As Zierbaum the Serbian spruce is today in Europe and North America far common. It is rooted more deeply than the common spruce, is considered thereby than windfest and can to maritime climate be cultivated for example near the coast, thus. The Serbian spruce is also substantially more resistant to pollutant entries from air than the common spruce.

Description

The Serbian spruce is an upright increasing, evergreen tree, which becomes high up to 30 m usually; under good conditions already 50 meters were measured.

The crown is narrowly conically, often nearly and very variable in the density of the Bezweigung. The trunk is straight, with (in particular in the top of the crown) usually horizontally which are away side branches (monopodial). The trunk can reach a diameter of 0,7 m under good conditions. The normal age is about 100 to 150 years.

The crust has a violet-brown colouring and schuppt in angular plates off. The needles are 1.2 to 1.8 cm long and scarcely 2 mm wide; at the fresh impulse they are grass-green, later many more darkly bluish green to deeply; on the lower surface they carry two broad white flat needles are similar to those of the firs, are however by the fact well distinguishable that they sit on a needle reason felled trees.

The taps are 6 cm long, oblong eggly-shaped and from violet-brown color.

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