Plant Details

Accepted name:: Picea abies (L.) H.Karst. [Pinaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants
Infraspecies:: 2

Picea abies var. abies

Picea abies var. acuminata (Beck) Dallim. & A.B.Jacks.

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
abete rosso	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
baltic whitewood	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
burgundy pitch	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
christmas tree	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
doitsu-tōhi	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
eлкa	Other	Wild Pl. for Food & Healing in Liubań, Belarus (Sõukand et al., 2017)
fichte	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
fichtennadelöl	Other	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994)
fine burgund pitch	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
fine hamburg pitch	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
frische fichtenspitzen	Other	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994)
gemeine fichte	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
gran	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
hamburg burgundy pitch	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
jelka	Other	Wild Pl. for Food & Healing in Liubań, Belarus (Sõukand et al., 2017)
jura turpentine	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
norway spruce	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
piceae aetheroleum	Pharmaceutical	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994)
piceae turiones recentes	Pharmaceutical	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994)
pix burgundica	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
pix burgundica ver	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
rotfichte	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
spruce	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
spruce beer	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
strobili piceae abietis	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the Russian Pharm. (Shikov, 2014)
true burgundy pitch	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
turpentine	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
white deal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
white spruce	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
épicéa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
épicéa élevé	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
needles, twigs, cones	young cones	Wild Pl. for Food & Healing in Liubań, Belarus (Sõukand et al., 2017)
oil		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 6 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Abies abies (L.) Druce Rep. Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 7: 689 (1924 publ. 1925), not validly publ.
Abies communis Lindl. in J.C.Loudon, Encycl. Pl.: 804 (1829), nom. superfl.
Abies picea Mill. Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 2 (1768).
Pinus abies L. Sp. Pl.: 1002 (1753).
Pinus abies subsp. vulgaris Voss in K.Putlitz & L.Meyer, Landlexikon 4: 770 (1913), not validly publ.
Pinus pyramidalis Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 399 (1796), nom. superfl.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Picea abies	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Picea abies (L.) H. Karst	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Picea abies (L.) H.Karst.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) Wild Pl. for Food & Healing in Liubań, Belarus (Sõukand et al., 2017) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Picea abies (L.) Karst.	Med. Pl. of the Russian Pharm. (Shikov, 2014) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Picea abies (L.) Karsten	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998)
Picea abies (Linné) Karsten	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994)

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