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Balsam fir is a small to medium-size evergreen tree typically 14–20 metres (46–66 ft) tall, occasionally reaching a height of 27 metres (89 ft). The narrow conic crown consists of dense, dark-green leaves. The bark on young trees is smooth, grey, and with resin blisters (which tend to spray when ruptured), becoming rough and fissured or ...
The bottom (left) and top (right) of the foliage. Abies grandis is a large evergreen conifer growing to 40–70 metres (130–230 feet) tall, exceptionally 100 m (330 ft), with a trunk diameter of up to 2 m (61⁄2 ft). The dead tree tops sometimes fork into new growth. [4] The bark is 5 centimetres (2 inches) thick, reddish to gray (but purple ...
Description. Douglas-firs are medium-size to extremely large evergreen trees, 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 metres (16 feet) exist. [12] The largest coast Douglas-firs regularly ...
Description. Leaves of cultivated tree at Birr Castle, Ireland. It is a large evergreen tree growing to 40–60 metres (130–200 ft) tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 2–2.5 metres (6 ft 7 in – 8 ft 2 in). It has a conical crown with level branches. The shoots are greyish-pink to buff-brown, smooth and glabrous (hairless).
Abies concolor, the white fir, concolor fir, or Colorado fir, is a coniferous tree in the pine family Pinaceae. This tree is native to the mountains of western North America, including the Sierra Nevada and southern Rocky Mountains, and into the isolated mountain ranges of southern Arizona, New Mexico, and Northern Mexico. It naturally occurs ...
Abies procera. Abies nobilis (Douglas ex D.Don) Lindl. nom. illeg. Abies procera, the noble fir, also called red fir and Christmas tree, [3] is a species of fir native to the Cascade Range and Pacific Coast Ranges of the northwestern Pacific Coast of the United States. It occurs at altitudes of 300–1,500 meters (980–4,920 ft).
Description. 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, but rarely to 80 ft (20 m), with a trunk diameter of 16–20 in (41–51 cm), but rarely 30 in (80 cm). The crown is conical, with straight branches either horizontal or angled upward at ...
Abies nordmanniana, the Nordmann fir or Caucasian fir, [2] is a fir indigenous to the mountains south and east of the Black Sea, in Turkey, Georgia and the Russian Caucasus. It occurs at altitudes of 900–2,200 m on mountains with precipitation of over 1,000 mm. The current distribution of the Nordmann fir is associated with the forest refugia ...