Green on top and white underneath.
Silver fir tree identification.
Fraser fir is rare in its natural appalachian range but extensively planted and grown for christmas trees.
European silver fir is a large evergreen coniferous species of tree that grows to mature heights of 130 to 165 feet 40 50 m tall exceptionally to 200 feet 60 m with with a trunk diameter of up to 5 feet 1 5 m wide measured at breast height.
The bark is smooth and gray.
Spanish fir abies pinsapo spanish firs have a distinct conical shape and purple cones.
Full sun to part shade.
Silver fir is the species first used as a christmas tree but has been largely replaced by nordmann fir which has denser more attractive foliage norway spruce which is much cheaper to grow and other species.
Citation needed the wood is strong lightweight light colored fine grained even textured and long fibered.
Western firs are the pacific silver fir california red fir noble fir grand fir and white fir.
40 50 m tall.
100 to 250 feet.
The silver fir is slender tree that grows to between 130 and 160 ft.
Pacific silver fir abies amabilis click on each photo to enlarge image needles.
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The largest measured tree was 223 feet 68 m tall with a trunk diameter of 12 5 feet 3 8 m.
Trees by common name trees by scientific name dichotomous key mystery tree.