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Picea smithiana

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{{stub}}[[File:Picea smithiana.jpg|thumb|right]]'''Picea smithiana''' is an evergreen tree that can grow up to 30 metres tall. An important timber tree that can yield excellent construction material of large size, it is much harvested from the wild for commercial use. The tree also has a range of traditional uses as a food and source of materials. It is grown as an ornamental, where its long needles, drooping branches and bright green seed cones make it an ornamental tree of considerable merit.
==Uses==
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==Parts Used==
{{Parts Used|Seeds}}, {{Parts Used|stem}}, {{Parts Used|leaves}}, {{Parts Used|RootInner bark}}.
==Chemical Composition==
It contains the major compounds of oil were delta-3-carene (26.0%), limonene (25.0%), βpinene (14.0%), and ά-pinene (6.6%). Therefore delta-3-carene (26.0%) and limonene(25.0%) determined the chemotype of the Kashmir P. smithiana oil etc.<ref name="chemical composition"/>
==Common names==
===Dravya===
===Rasa===
 
===Guna===
==Habit==
{{Habit|Evergreen tree}}
==Identification==
==Mode of Propagation==
{{Propagation|Seeds}}, {{Propagation|Cuttings of semi-ripe terminal shoots}}, {{Propagation|Cuttings of mature terminal shoots}}, {{Propagation|Cuttings of soft to semi-ripe wood}}.
==How to plant/cultivate==
The climate is moist monsoon, with abundant precipitation in two rainy seasons, but becoming gradually drier in the western parts of the range. Some of the precipitation falls as snow which accumulates over winter.<ref name="How to plant/cultivate"/>
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
==Photo Gallery==
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File:Picea smithiana 002.jpgFile:Picea smithiana Brno4.JPGFile:Picea smithiana, RBGE 2008.jpg
</gallery>
<references>
<ref name="chemical composition">["Chemistry"https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/191929/14/14_chapter%20%204.pdf Chemical constituents]</ref>
<ref name="Leaf">["Morphology"]</ref>
<ref name="How to plant/cultivate">[ "http://temperate.theferns.info/plant/Picea+smithiana Cultivation"]</ref>
<ref name="Uses">Indian Medicinal Plants by C.P.Khare</ref>
</references>
==External Links==
* [ https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/picea-smithiana/ Picea smithiana on plants.edu]* [ https://conifersociety.org/conifers/picea-smithiana/ Picea smithiana on conifersociety.org]* [ http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=285035 Picea smithiana on missouribotanicalgarden.org]
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