European Silver Fir -  Abies alba
Specimens photographed at Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.
Pinaceae – Pine family.  Also placed in: Abietaceae (1)
 


 

 
Native:
  • EUROPE
    Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Poland; Switzerland
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Greece; Italy; Romania; Yugoslavia
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Spain (1)
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Economic importance:

 

Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Coniferophyta – Conifers
Class Pinopsida
Order Pinales
Family Pinaceae – Pine family
Genus Abies P. Mill. – fir
Species Abies alba P. Mill. – silver fir

(1)

Synonyms:

 


 
 

Check other databases for Abies alba Mill.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Abies alba cultivars
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found. (1)


This prototypical Christmas Tree is 22 years old and about 20 feet tall.
 

 


This specimen is 50 years old.

References:
1. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.

2. ITIS standard report Abies alba
3. Zelimir Borzan. "Tree and Shrub Names in Latin, Croatian, English, and German, with synonyms", University of Zagreb, 2001.
 

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