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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 and rarely to 80 ft (20 m), with a trunk diameter of 16–20 in (41–51 cm), rarely 30 in (80 cm).
Fraser fir appears at 5,500 feet and becomes the dominant tree type at 6,200 feet (1,900 m). [4] [7] The two trees can be distinguished by their needles and cones, with Fraser firs having blunt-shaped needles and upright cones and red spruces having prickly four-cornered needles and cones pointing downward. [8]
Fraser fir tree, previously known as balsam fir: Cattail Peak: 6,583 ft/2,006 m North-central Blacks 35.798413, −82.256502 Possibly named for mountain lions that may have once frequented the summit Big Tom: 6,581 ft/2,006 m South-central Blacks 35.779698, −82.259854 Thomas "Big Tom" Wilson (1825–1909), legendary bear hunter and mountain guide
Fraser fir is a beloved type of Christmas tree that also offers privacy, beauty, and wildlife value to gardens.
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.
The name Canaan fir derives from one of its native localities, the Canaan Valley in West Virginia. Some botanists regard this variety as a natural hybrid between balsam fir and Fraser fir (Abies fraseri), which occurs further south in the Appalachian mountains. This produces a slight change in color, making it appear similar to a true Fraser Fir.
Fraser fir rarely occurs below 5,500 ft (1,700 m), and becomes the dominant tree type at 6,200 ft (1,900 m). [38] By contrast, balsam fir is found from near sea level to the tree line in the northern Appalachians, but ranges only as far south as Virginia and West Virginia in the central Appalachians, where it is usually confined above 3,900 ft ...
Magnolia fraseri, commonly known as Fraser magnolia, mountain magnolia, earleaf cucumbertree, or mountain-oread, is a species of magnolia native to the southeastern United States in the southern Appalachian Mountains and adjacent Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain from West Virginia to northern Florida and to eastern Texas.