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'Picea purpurea' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Bark divided into rather thin, scaly plates; shoots very densely clad with long hairs. Leaves shorter than in the type, about {1/2} in. long, dark green on the exposed side, more closely appressed to the shoot. Cones mostly smaller, about 2 in. long (but occasionally up to 3 in.), violet-purple when young. Native of Kansu and N.W. Szechwan; discovered by Wilson in 1903 and introduced by him in 1910–11 from near Sungpan; it was reintroduced by Joseph Rock from Kansu. Some examples are: Wakehurst Place, Sussex, 70 × 3{1/4} and 56 × 4{1/2} ft (1974); Borde Hill, Sussex, Pinetum, 60 × 3{1/4} ft (1974); Vernon Holme, Kent, 60 × 4{1/4} ft (1973); Westonbirt, Glos., pl. 1931, 62 × 3{1/2} ft (1969).