Japanese crossword «Spruce on the hedgehog similar: Hedgehog in the needles, tree too.»

Lots of similar greens but that portion came out really pretty.
It's the black and pinkish area that I don't quite see from the title.
It was a fun challenge to solve and I'd like to see more from this author.

I don’t know if it refers to this story or not: http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/80384?/eng/content/view/full/80384&main

If it’s not that story I’m sure it refers to one.

There is also a plant called a hedgehog spruce.

fun
only could see the picture well when zoomed out

Cute, nice shading

In the title the poem for studying of the Russian alphabet (abc). Children learning letters "e" and "ё".

I guessed it was a hedgehog and a Christmas tree but didn't get the humor. I think it is a great tree with all the greens and a great stylized hedgehog. Very nice job! Thanks for sharing.

I'm affraid the image is beyond my imagination, and the title mey make more sense to other languges tnan mine.

What a lovely way to put poetry in picture!

Even allowing for the fact that the title was meant to teach Russian children the Russian alphabet, I couldn't parse the title. But I put it in Google translate and then took the Russian translation and put it back into English and found it began to make sense to me. "Spruce looks like a hedgehog: a hedgehog with needles, a tree too." Irina's comment condenses it wonderfully.

Doing this one helped me make sense of the B&W one.

Three shades of dirty green 8-(