![Picea purpurea Rogów placard](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Picea_purpurea_Rog%C3%B3w_placard.JPG)
''Picea purpurea'', also known as purple cone spruce and purple-coned spruce is a species of
spruce found only in
China.
It is likely to be a
hybrid species
Hybrid speciation is a form of speciation where hybridization between two different species leads to a new species, reproductively isolated from the parent species. Previously, reproductive isolation between two species and their parents was thou ...
produced by crosses between ''
Picea likiangensis'' and ''
Picea wilsonii'', or possibly involving other species.
References
purpurea
Near threatened plants
Trees of China
Endemic flora of China
Plants described in 1906
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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