This tree has a number of regional common names including great silver fir giant fir oregon fir lowland white fir vancouver fir western white fir yellow fir and great fir.
Silver fir tree identification.
The needles on the twigs are dark green on the upper side with 2 white stomata bands on the underside.
40 50 m tall.
The largest measured tree was 223 feet 68 m tall with a trunk diameter of 12 5 feet 3 8 m.
Full sun to part shade.
The bark is smooth and gray.
European silver fir is a large evergreen coniferous species of tree that grows to mature heights of 130 to 165 feet 40 50 m tall exceptionally to 200 feet 60 m with with a trunk diameter of up to 5 feet 1 5 m wide measured at breast height.
Spanish fir abies pinsapo spanish firs have a distinct conical shape and purple cones.
Pacific silver fir abies amabilis click on each photo to enlarge image needles.
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Citation needed the wood is strong lightweight light colored fine grained even textured and long fibered.
The balsam fir is north america s northern most fir with an extensive range in canada and primarily grows in the northeastern united states.
Western firs are the pacific silver fir california red fir noble fir grand fir and white fir.
Fraser fir is rare in its natural appalachian range but extensively planted and grown for christmas trees.
The silver fir is slender tree that grows to between 130 and 160 ft.
Silver fir is the species first used as a christmas tree but has been largely replaced by nordmann fir which has denser more attractive foliage norway spruce which is much cheaper to grow and other species.