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Manchurian Fir -
Abies nephrolepis (Trautv. ex Maxim.) Maxim.
Family:
Pinaceae. Also placed in:
Abietaceae
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This Morton Arboretum specimen, about 3 meters tall, was started
from seed 14 years ago. |
| "A narrowly pyramidal tree 25-35 m. tall, 0.75-1
m. in girth, with horizontal spreading branches and
with a dense crown. Bark gray-white to light
gray-brown, smooth, becoming shallowly fissured.
Branchlets slightly grooved, pubescent,
yellowish-white to yellowish-brown. Buds ovoid,
hidden by the leaves, slightly resinous,
violet-white; scales obtuse, slightly keeled; 10-13
mm. in diameter. Leaves pointing forward, covering
the branchlet, pectinate below, linear, grooved
above, flattened below, dark shiny yellow-green to
dark green above, grayish-green below, 1.5-3.5 cm.
long by 1.2-1.5 mm. wide; stomata usually absent
above, in 4-5 lines below; cross-section elliptic,
apex rounded or notched. Male strobili
reddish-yellow. Female cone cylindrical, apex
pointed with a short nipple, reddish-brown to dark
violet, 4.5-8 cm. long; scales nearly horizontal,
pubescent; bracts slightly exserted, rather broadly
covering the scale; cone 1.5-2 cm. wide. Seed with a
dark brown nut, wing violet-purple" (Silba
1986). |
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Common names:
- Khingan fir (Source:
Dict Gard )
- Chinese: Kuasung
- Russian: Pikhta belokoraya
- German: Nierenschuppige Weisstanne
- Japanese: tô-sirabe
- Manchurian fir (Source:
KrussmannC )
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- Native:
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Soviet Far East: Russian
Federation - Amur, Khabarovsk, Primorye
China: China - Hebei,
Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Shaanxi
Eastern Asia: Korea
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