I took these pics in a garden in Tuscany: one is a plant with red berries, the other is a kind of spruce. Please help me identify it. Thanks in advance.
I checked and it seems really a Nandina. Thank you very much for your answer. Now, can anyone help me identify that kind of spruce?
Ron, very interested in how you distinquish between the two using the attached images. Seriously, and sincerely, respectfully....
Would be helpful to have a detail photo of the growing tip. Below are pretty typical of images of these two species. P. pungens looks thicker, but P. glauca does not look shorter. Appears there is a conflict between the true species and plants now in cultivation? http://images.google.com/imgres?img...ens&hl=en&sa=N&um=1&ei=YbUaS4TjBYaQtgOd_bCCBQ http://images.google.com/imgres?img...uca&hl=en&sa=N&um=1&ei=G7kaS8y9M566sgP8-cyIBw
Picea glauca leaves 8-20mm Picea pungens leaves 15-30mm Source: A. Farjon, Pinaceae (Koeltz Scientific, 1990).