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| Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
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| Origin: | ✈ | Caucasus, Asia Minor, Greece |
| Sunset Zones: | 3-11, 14-24, 32-37 |
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Vigorous, densely foliaged fir. Under cultivation reaches 30-50 feet tall, 20 feet wide. Needles are dark green and shiny, .25 to 1.5 inches long, having whitish bands underneath, and densely covering the branches. Does well in warm and dry summer western US and humid mid-Atlantic and southeastern states, but does best with regular water. Can be kept long-term in containers.
Read about Nordmann Fir in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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100-150 ft.: trunk 4-6 ft. in diam.: lvs. flat, crowded, dark green and very lustrous above, silvery white below: cones oblong- cylindrical or ellipsoidal, dark orange-brown, 4-6 in. long; bracts as long as or slightly longer than their scales. Mts. south and southeast of the Black Sea, and western spurs of the Caucasus. Often hardy; one of the most desirable firs in the middle states. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text. |
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Propagation
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Pests and diseases
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Varieties
- Abies nordmanniana subsp. equi-trojani - Turkish Fir
- Abies nordmanniana var. aureo-variegata - Shoots colored a pure golden yellow.
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References
External links
- w:Nordmann Fir. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
- Nordmann Fir QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)
