The Norway Spruce is one of the fastest growing and tallest spruces in Wisconsin. It is the dominant tree in the Fatherland's Black Forest region.
It is also an important wood for the manufacture of paper because it has long wood fibers which bind together to make a strong product.
The spruce is utilized for other purposes ranging from general construction work and crates to highly specialized uses in wooden aircraft and many musical instruments, including guitars, mandolins, cellos, violins and piano soundboards.
The Wright brother’s first aircraft was built of spruce – same for Howard Hugh’s Spruce Goose.
Toothpicks are manufactured from this tree too.
Spruces are cultivated over vast areas for these purposes.
They are popular ornamental trees which is why you will find them in yards, cemeteries and for sale as Christmas trees.
Scientists have found a cluster of Norway Spruce in the mountains in western Sweden, nicknamed Old Tjikko - which at an age of 9,550 years are claimed to be the world's oldest known living trees.
The even-aged stand in the picture is eleven years-old.
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