Red fir

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Plant Characteristics
Lifespan: perennial
Cultivation
Scientific Names

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Read about Red fir in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Red Fir. Tree, 200-250 ft.: trunk 6-10 ft. in diam.: lvs. quadrangular, bluntly pointed on sterile and acute on fertile branches: cones oblong-cylindrical, purplish brown, 6-9 in. long; bracts much shorter than the scales. Sierra Nevada of Calif.; gregarious and forming great forests. —Wood occasionally manufactured into lumber. Less hardy in the eastern states than A. nobilis.

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Varieties

  • Var. shastensis, of S. Ore. and N. Calif., cones somewhat smaller, with bracts as long as or longer than the scales.

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References

  • Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, L.H. BaileyCH

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