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Abies alba
Common name:
Silver Fir, European Silver Fir, אשוח לבן, אשוח לבן
Family:
Pinaceae (Pine)
Synonym:
Abies pectinata
Distribution:
Central and Southern Europe from the Pyrenees to Bulgaria and the Poland-Belarus frontier
Life form:
Conifer
Description:
In nature tree up to 45 m tall, with trunk to 1.5 m in diameter. Bark light gray. Branchlets densely hairy. Buds 3.5-4 mm longl. Needles arranged to the sides and above the twigs, 1.5-3 cm long, dark green, plumb in corss secion. Male cones around 2 cm long, greenish-yellow. Mature female cones roughly cyllindrical, 10-20 cm long. Young cones green or purple tinged, reddish-brown when mature. Cotyledons mostly fine.
Locations
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• Accession: 0000-0166
Area
Individual