Norway Spruce 

Large tree with broadly conical form, wide base. Cones are long and narrow and have flexible scales. Needle like branchlets often hang like drapery from larger branches. The needles are ½-1” in length. They have white stripes with shiny dark green needles. Sharp pointed, with a camphor like scent when crushed. The cone 4-7 ¼ in length. Light brown slightly curved. The scales are thin and flexible sometimes pointed at the tip edges are irregularly toothed. 

Distribution: Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. It has branchlets that typically hang downwards, and the largest cones of any spruce, 9–17 cm (3 1⁄2–6 3⁄4 in) long.

Uses: The Norway spruce is used in forestry for (softwood) timber, and paper production. The tree is the source of spruce beer, which was once used to prevent and even cure scurvy.