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The dead tree tops sometimes fork into new growth. [4] The bark is 5 centimetres (2 inches) thick, reddish to gray (but purple within), furrowed, and divided into slender plates. [ 4 ] The leaves are needle-like, flattened, 3–6 cm ( 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 – 2 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) long and 2 millimetres ( 3 ⁄ 32 in) wide by 0.5 mm thick, glossy dark green ...
Abies magnifica is a large evergreen tree typically up to 40–60 metres (130–200 ft) tall and 2 m (6 ft 7 in) trunk diameter, rarely to 76.5 m (251 ft) tall and 3 m (9 ft 10 in) diameter, with a narrow conic crown. The bark on young trees is smooth, grey, and has resin blisters
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.
The lowest branches can be observed growing 1 m (3 ft 3 in) above ground level. [4] The leaves are flat and needle-like, 1.5–3 centimetres ( 5 ⁄ 8 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 in) long, glaucous green above with a broad stripe of stomata , and two blue-white stomatal bands below; the fresh leaf scars are reddish (tan on the inland variety). [ 4 ]
Many are also decorative garden trees, notably Korean fir and Fraser's fir, which produce brightly coloured cones even when very young, still only 1–2 m (3 ft 3 in – 6 ft 7 in) tall. Many fir species are grown in botanic gardens and other specialist tree collections in Europe and North America. [20]
The bark on young trees is smooth and gray with resin blisters, becoming red-brown, rough and fissured on old trees, usually less than 5 centimeters (2 in) thick; the inner bark is reddish. [5] The leaves are needle-like, 1–3.5 cm ( 1 ⁄ 2 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long, glaucous blue-green above and below with strong stomal bands, and a blunt to ...
The tree is a large evergreen conifer growing to 30–45 metres (98–148 feet), exceptionally 72 m (236 ft) tall, [2] and with a trunk diameter of up to 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in), exceptionally 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in). The bark on younger trees is light grey, thin and covered with resin blisters. [4] On older trees, it darkens and develops scales and furrows.
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).