Silver Fir Tree Cone

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“Picea, Silver Fir. Fig. 60. Tree, 100-200 ft: trunk 6-8 ft. in dia.: lvs. flat, distichously spreading, dark green and lustrous above, silvery white below: cones slender, cylindrical, light green to dark purple, 5-6 in. long; bracts slightly longer than their scales. Mts. of Cent. and S. Eu., often gregarious.- Wood esteemed and much used; yields Strasburg turpentine. Dwarf forms, with erect and pendulous and with much abbreviated branches, are common in gardens. Not perfectly hardy in New England.” L.H. Bailey, 1917

Keywords

trees, Botany, christmas, horticulture, Picea, North American tree, Silver Fir, fir trees, fir cones, European Fir

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Trees: Q-S, Pine Trees

Source

L. H. Bailey Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture (New York, New York: The MacMillan Company, 1917)

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