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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.
White fir is a hardy evergreen conifer tree with distinctive blue-green needles and is often used as a Christmas tree. It is also grown in large public spaces and parks but its cultivars fit any size home landscape.
White fir is a hardy, ornamental, native North American evergreen. Its attractive, blue-green needles curve outward and upward on branches and, when crushed, emit a lemon scent. This choice plant tolerates a wide range of conditions, including drought, heat and cold temperatures.
Native to cool, mountainous regions across the globe, white fir trees thrive in moderate climates with adequate moisture and slightly acidic, fertile soil. White fir trees make an excellent evergreen privacy screen in large landscapes, as their densely needled branches will block views to neighbors. When grown under the proper conditions, white ...
It is also commonly referred to in English as the white fir, red fir, lovely fir, amabilis fir, Cascades fir, or silver fir. ... 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).
Long considered undesirable for timber, white fir (Abies concolor) is finally being recognized as a highly productive, valuable tree species. White fir reaches its best development and maximum size in the central Sierra Nevada of California, where the record specimen is 58.5 m (192 ft) tall and measures 271 cm (106.6 in) in d.b.h. (7).
Abies concolor, commonly called white fir or concolor fir, is primarily native to mountain slopes (3000-9000 feet in elevation) in the western U.S., including the southern Cascades and Sierras from Oregon to southern California and the Rockies from southern Idaho to Arizona and New Mexico.
White fir is one of 40 members of its genus worldwide, and nine in North America. Its common name is descriptive of the foliage, whereas its scientific name is not too helpful. Abies is simply the ancient Latin word for fir trees, and concolor means “together, or of one color.”. The last part of its scientific name, “concolor,” has also ...
The white fir or concolor fir can grow to heights of 130' in its native range, locally heights are expected to be reduced, often 40' to 70' tall. It has a narrow conical shape with a straight trunk. The bark is a gray color, young bark is smooth, and furrowed with broad flat ridges on older trees.
There are two varieties of white fir, the typical white fir (Abies concolor var. concolor) and California white fir (Abies concolor var. lowiana [Gord.] Lemm). Abies is the classical Latin name of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) of Europe.