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'Prostrata' This slow-growing cultivar matures into a spreading, mounded shape, 4-5 feet tall, 12-14 feet wide. Fraser Fir Companion Plants. In the wild, Fraser fir often grows with other types of ...
Close-up view of Fraser fir foliage. Abies fraseri is a small evergreen coniferous tree typically growing between 30 and 50 ft (10 and 20 m) tall and rarely to 80 ft (20 m), with a trunk diameter of 16–20 in (41–51 cm), rarely 30 in (80 cm).
Douglas-fir is a medium-sized to extremely large evergreen tree, 20–100 metres (70–330 feet) tall (although only coast Douglas-firs, reach heights near 100 m) [10] and commonly reach 2.4 m (8 ft) in diameter, [11] although trees with diameters of almost 5 m (16 ft) exist. [12]
Many are also decorative garden trees, notably Korean fir and Fraser's fir, which produce brightly coloured cones even when very young, still only 1–2 m (3 ft 3 in – 6 ft 7 in) tall. Many fir species are grown in botanic gardens and other specialist tree collections in Europe and North America.
Santa Lucia fir (Abies bracteata) and seven other native Abies species. Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) Bigcone Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga macrocarpa) - Central Coast and Santa Susana Mountains. California nutmeg (Torreya californica) Incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens) Port Orford cedar-Lawson cypress (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana)
The bark on young trees is smooth and gray with resin blisters, becoming red-brown, rough and fissured on old trees, usually less than 5 centimeters (2 in) thick; the inner bark is reddish. [5] The leaves are needle-like, 1–3.5 cm ( 1 ⁄ 2 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long, glaucous blue-green above and below with strong stomal bands, and a blunt to ...
There are two or three taxa in subalpine fir, treated very differently by different authors: . The Coast Range subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) [4] in the narrow sense, is the typical form of the species, occurring in the Pacific Coast Ranges, the Olympic Mountains and the Cascade Range from Southeast Alaska (Panhandle mountains) south to California.
Abies holophylla, also called needle fir [2] or Manchurian fir, is a species of fir native to mountainous regions of northern Korea, southern Ussuriland, and China in the provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning.