The bark is smooth and gray.
Silver fir tree identification.
Full sun to part shade.
Pacific silver fir abies amabilis click on each photo to enlarge image needles.
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.
The balsam fir is north america s northern most fir with an extensive range in canada and primarily grows in the northeastern united states.
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.
The silver fir is slender tree that grows to between 130 and 160 ft.
Green on top and white underneath.
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.
Fraser fir is rare in its natural appalachian range but extensively planted and grown for christmas trees.
For more information about these species see.
100 to 250 feet.
Spanish fir abies pinsapo spanish firs have a distinct conical shape and purple cones.
Trees by common name trees by scientific name dichotomous key mystery tree.
40 50 m tall.
Citation needed the wood is strong lightweight light colored fine grained even textured and long fibered.