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Spruce - Sitka
| Dutch | English | Spanish |
| Sitkaspar | Sitka spruce | Abeto Sitka |
| Sitkavuren | Silver spruce | Abeto Amiricano |
Botanic name: Picea sitchensis
Family: Pinaceae
Grows: West-North-America. Sitka trees planted in Europe (mostly parks and gardens)
Volumeweight: 0,45
Other names: menzies spruce, coast spruce, Tideland spruce, western spruce, yellow spruce
Usage: Soundboards, fan struts and cross-bars. Also used as kernel for veneerd necks of lutes and baroque guitars. Somtimes used for glue blocks and endblock. Sitka spruce belongs to the strongest woods in the world.
