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European Silver Fir -
Abies
alba
Specimens photographed at Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.
Pinaceae – Pine family. Also placed in:
Abietaceae
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Native:
- EUROPE
Middle Europe:
Austria; Czechoslovakia;
Germany; Poland;
Switzerland
Southeastern Europe:
Albania; Bulgaria;
Greece; Italy;
Romania; Yugoslavia
Southwestern Europe:
France [incl. Corsica];
Spain
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Check other databases for Abies
alba Mill.:
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Flora Europaea: Database of
European Plants (ESFEDS)
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Gymnosperm Database of
Christopher J. Earle
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Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World
Database of Agricultural and
Horticultural Crops
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ICRA: International Cultivar
Registration Authority for Abies alba
cultivars
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ePIC: Electronic Plant
Information Centre of Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew
- AGRICOLA:
Article Citation Database or
NAL Catalog of USDA's National
Agricultural Library
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Entrez: NCBI's search engine
for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences,
etc.
Note: Defaults to a
search by genus or species epithet if
species binomial not found.
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This prototypical Christmas Tree is 22 years old and
about 20 feet tall.

This specimen is 50 years old.
References:
1.
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN)
[Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
2.
ITIS standard report Abies alba
3. Zelimir Borzan. "Tree and Shrub Names in
Latin, Croatian, English, and German, with
synonyms", University of Zagreb, 2001.
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