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Abies procera


Abies procera - Noble fir description


 

Scientific name: Abies procera  Rehder  1940

Synonyms: Abies nobilis (Douglas ex D. Don) Lindl., Picea nobilis (Douglas ex D.Don) Loudon, Pinus nobilis Douglas ex D.Don, Pseudotsuga nobilis (Douglas ex D.Don) W.R.McNab

Common names: Noble fir, Red fir, White fir

 

Description

Tree to 70(-85) m tall, with trunk to 2.5(-3) m in diameter. Bark dark gray, soon becoming reddish gray, soon becoming reddish gray, narrowly ridged and furrowed. Branchlets finely hairy, shallowly grooved between the leaf bases. Buds 2.5-3.5 mm, not resinous, hairy on the basal scales, hidden among leaves. Needles all pointing upward on the twig from an abruptly bent leaf base, (1-)2-3(-3.5) cm long, bluish green with wax above before becoming dull dark green, the tips notched to rounded, occasionally pointed. Individual needles flat to slightly plump in cross section and with a resin canal on either side just inside the lower epidermis somewhere from the midpoint to near the edge, with (or without) up to 14 rows of stomates in the groove above, sometimes divided between two stomatal bands, and (four to) six seven rows in each stomatal band beneath. Pollen cones 15-25 mm long, reddish purple. Seed cones barrel-shaped, 10-15(-30) cm long, 5-6.5(-8) cm across, green or reddish purple when young, maturing light brown. Bracts yellow-green, longer than the seed scales and bent back over to cover them. Seed body 12-13 mm long, the wing a little longer. Cotyledons mostly five or six.

Cascade and Coast Ranges of Washington, Oregon, and northwestern California. Forming pure stands or, more commonly, mixed with almost any conifers of the region;(60-)900-2,200(-2,700) m.

 

Conservation Status

Red List Category & Criteria: Least Concern

 

Varieties:

Abies procera ’Argentea’
Abies procera ’Argentea Nellemann’
Abies procera ’Aurea’
Abies procera ’Balatka’
Abies procera ’Bizarro’
Abies procera ’Blaue Hexe’
Abies procera ’Blue Heaven’
Abies procera ’Blue Spiral’
Abies procera ’Blue Spire’
Abies procera ’Blue Wonder’
Abies procera ’Bump’s Broom’ 
Abies procera ’Compacta’
Abies procera ’Danish Column’
Abies procera ’David’s Columnaris’
Abies procera ’Delbar Cascade’
Abies procera ’Fastigiata’
Abies procera ’Franken’
Abies procera ’Frijsenborg’
Abies procera ’Glauca’
Abies procera ’Glauca Nana’
Abies procera ’Glauca Prostrata’
Abies procera ’Golden Needles’
Abies procera ’HB Siskiyou’
Abies procera ’Henk’s Garden’
Abies procera ’Hexenbesen’
Abies procera ’Hupp’s Blue’
Abies procera ’Hupp’s Christmas Tree’
Abies procera ’Hupp’s Compact’
Abies procera ’Hupp’s Dwarf’
Abies procera ’Hupp’s Prostrate’
Abies procera ’Hupp’s Single Snake’
Abies procera ’Hupp’s Special’
Abies procera ’Hupp’s Weeping’
Abies procera ’Jeddeloh’
Abies procera ’Johnson’
Abies procera ’La Graciosa’
Abies procera ’Masonic Broom’
Abies procera ’Mount Hood’
Abies procera ’Mount Seattle’
Abies procera ’Mt. Sii’
Abies procera ’Nana’
Abies procera ’Nobel’
Abies procera ’Noble’s Dwarf’
Abies procera ’Obrighofen’
Abies procera ’Pendula’
Abies procera ’Pospíšil’
Abies procera ’Procumbens’
Abies procera ’Procumbens Nana’
Abies procera ’Prostrata’
Abies procera ’Rat’
Abies procera ’Rat Tail’  
Abies procera ’Rick’s Foxtail’
Abies procera ’Robenek’
Abies procera ’Robusta’
Abies procera ’Rogui Benspeter’
Abies procera ’Seattle Mountain’
Abies procera ’Seestern’
Abies procera ’Sherwoodii’
Abies procera ’Silver’ 
Abies procera ’Stanley’s Select’
Abies procera ’Tolines Farm ’WB Top’
Abies procera ’Windsor’
Abies procera ’Yellow Needle’

 

Attribution from: Conifers Garden


 

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