Abies koreana - Korean fir description

Scientific name: Abies koreana  E.H.Wilson  1920

Synonyms: -

Common names: Korean fir, Kusang namu (Korean)

Description

Tree to 18 m tall, with trunk to 0.8 m in diameter. Bark pale gray, darkening and breaking up into blocks with age. Young branchlets with a few hairs in the shallow grooves between the leaf bases, but these soon lost. Buds 3-5 mm long, lightly resinous. Needles standing out all around the twigs, although shorter, denser, and curved above, mostly 1-2 cm long, shining dark green above, widest near the pointed (on cone-bearing branches) or notched tip. Individual needles flat or plump in cross section, the edges slightly rolled down, and with a resin canal near the center of either side, without stomates on the upper side and with 8-10 lines of stomates in each gleaming white stomatal band beneath. Pollen cones 8-15 mm long, red. Seeds cones cylindrical, 4-6(-7) cm long, 2-3 cm across, rich purple when young, maturing purplish brown. Bracts about as long as the minutely hairy seed scales and sticking out a little and back over them. Persistent cone axis narrowly conical. Seed body 5-6 mm long, the wing only about half as long. Cotyledons four or five.

Cheju (Quelpart) Island and nearby mainland South Korea. Mostly mixed with other conifers and hardwoods in the subalpine forest of mountain summits; 1,000-1,850 m.

Conservation Status

Red List Category & Criteria: Endangered

Varieties:

Abies koreana ‘Adelboden’  
Abies koreana ‘Alpin Star’ 
Abies koreana ‘Amy’s Afternoon’ 
Abies koreana ‘Ara’   
Abies koreana ‘Arbor’s Globe’ 
Abies koreana ‘Arbor’s Hexe’   
Abies koreana ‘Arnold’ 
Abies koreana ’Aurea’
Abies koreana ‘Aurea Gem’
Abies koreana ‘Aurea Kohout’
Abies koreana ‘Aureospica’
Abies koreana ‘Beskid’  
Abies koreana ’Blauer Dragoner’
Abies koreana ’Blauer Eskimo’
Abies koreana ’Blauer Pfiff’
Abies koreana ‘Blaue Zwo’
Abies koreana ‘Blue Cones’
Abies koreana ’Blue Emperor’
Abies koreana ’Blue Magic’
Abies koreana ‘Blue Parabol’
Abies koreana ’Blue Standard’
Abies koreana ‘Bonanza’   
Abies koreana ‘Bonite’
Abies koreana ’Brevifolia’
Abies koreana ‘Bultinck Dark’
Abies koreana ’Cis’
Abies koreana ’Compact Dwarf’
Abies koreana ’Compact Form’
Abies koreana ’Dark Hill’
Abies koreana ‘Dennis’  
Abies koreana ‘Doni Tajusho‘ 
Abies koreana ’Eisregen’
Abies koreana ‘Fastigiata’
Abies koreana ‘Fincham’s Seedling’
Abies koreana ’Flava’
Abies koreana ’Fliegender Untertasse’
Abies koreana ‘French’
Abies koreana ’Frosty’
Abies koreana ’Gait’
Abies koreana ’Gelbbunt’
Abies koreana ‘Glauca‘
Abies koreana ’Golden Dream’
Abies koreana ’Golden Glow’
Abies koreana ’Golden Wonder’
Abies koreana ’Goldener Traum’
Abies koreana ’Goldherz’
Abies koreana ‘Green Ball’  
Abies koreana ’Green Carpet’
Abies koreana ‘Green Gold’
Abies koreana ’Gruene Spinner’
Abies koreana ’Grübele H.B.’
Abies koreana ‘Hexe’
Abies koreana ’Hexenbessen Horstmann’
Abies koreana ’Horstmann’
Abies koreana ‘Horstmann’s Silberlocke’
Abies koreana ‘Hulsdonk’
Abies koreana ’Inverleith’
Abies koreana ’Julian Potts’
Abies koreana ‘Kobolt‘
Abies koreana ‘Kohout‘
Abies koreana ’Kohout Hexe’
Abies koreana ‘Kohout’s Icebreaker‘
Abies koreana ‘Kristalkugel‘
Abies koreana ’Lippetal’
Abies koreana ’Luminetta’
Abies koreana ’Lutea’
Abies koreana ’Mondschein’
Abies koreana ’Nadelkissen’
Abies koreana ’Nana’
Abies koreana ’Nanaimo’
Abies koreana ‘N Degrees’
Abies koreana ‘Nana’
Abies koreana ‘Nigrans’
Abies koreana ’Nisbet’
Abies koreana ’Oberon’
Abies koreana ‘Olhtacca’
Abies koreana ‘Ottostrasse’
Abies koreana ‘Pancake’
Abies koreana ‘Petite’  
Abies koreana ’Piccolo’
Abies koreana ’Pinocchio’
Abies koreana ’Pompom’
Abies koreana ’Prostrata’
Abies koreana ’Prostrate Beauty’
Abies koreana ‘Pygmy’
Abies koreana ‘Schneecanone’
Abies koreana ‘Schneestern‘
Abies koreana ’Schneeverdingen’
Abies koreana ‘Schwedenkönig‘
Abies koreana ’Silberglanz’
Abies koreana ’Silberlade’
Abies koreana ’Silberlocke’
Abies koreana ’Silbermavers’
Abies koreana ’Silberperl’
Abies koreana ‘Silberreif‘   
Abies koreana ’Silberzwerg’
Abies koreana ‘Silver Curls’  
Abies koreana ’Silver Mavers’
Abies koreana ’Silver Show’
Abies koreana ‚Silver Star‘
Abies koreana ‘Starker’s Dwarf‘
Abies koreana ’Taiga’
Abies koreana ’Tundra’
Abies koreana ‘Verdener Dom‘  
Abies koreana ‘Wellenseind‘   
Abies koreana ‘Wiki‘
Abies koreana ’Wüstemeyer’

Attribution from: Conifers Garden