Blue-spruce
a spruce, Picea pungens, of western North America, having bluish-green leaves, grown as an ornamental: the state tree of Colorado and Utah.
noun
a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves Also called balsam spruce
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