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342 The Book of Woodcraft Red Spruce. {Picea rubens) Evergreen. Much like the Black Spruce but with larger, longer cones about i| inch long and red when young, they are half way between tip and trunk on the twigs; edges of scales smooth and unbroken; twigs slender, leaves sharp pointed. Roots as in White Spruce, but wood redder and weigh 28 lbs. An eastern tree. In many ways half way between the White and Black Spruces.