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| name = ''Abies pinsapo''
|familia=Pinaceae
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|genus=Abies
| growth_habit = tree
|species=pinsapo
| high = ?m (50 ft){{SSN}}
|common_name=Spanish fir
| wide = <!--- 65cm (25 inches) -->
|habit=tree
| origin = Spain
|Temp Metric=°F
|sunset_zones=5-11, 14-24, 32, 33
|image=Abiespinsapoglauca.jpg
|image_width=240
| sunset_zones = 5-11, 14-24, 32, 33
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| image_width = 240px <!--- leave as 240px if horizontal orientation photo, or change to 180px if vertical -->
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Abies pinsapo - Spanish Fir. Native to Spain. Does very well in both warm/dry regions and cool/moist. Slow growth to 50 feet. Sometimes mistaken for a spruce (due to dense, symmetric form). Stiff needles are deep green and .5 to .75 inches long. They are set uniformly around branches. 'Glauca' variety is blue gray.
Abies pinsapo - Spanish Fir. Native to Spain. Does very well in both warm/dry regions and cool/moist. Slow growth to 50 feet. Sometimes mistaken for a spruce (due to dense, symmetric form). Stiff needles are deep green and .5 to .75 inches long. They are set uniformly around branches. 'Glauca' variety is blue gray.
'''''Abies pinsapo''''' ('''Spanish Fir''') is a species of [[fir]] native to southern [[Spain]] (altitudes of 900-2000 m) and northern [[Morocco]] (1400-2100 m).
It is an [[evergreen]] [[tree]] growing to 20-30 m tall, with a conic crown, sometimes becoming irregular with age. The [[leaf|leaves]] are 1.5-2 cm long, arranged radially all round the shoots, and are strongly glaucous pale blue-green, with broad bands of whitish wax on both sides. The [[conifer cone|cones]] are cylindrical, 9-18 cm long, greenish-pink to purple before maturity, and smooth with the bract scales short and not exserted. When mature, they disintegrate to release the winged [[seed]]s{{wp}}.
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Spanish Fir. Tree, 70-80 ft.: trunk 4-6 ft. in diam.: lvs. short, broad, rigid, sharp-pointed, bright green, spreading from all sides of the stiff branchlets: cones cylindrical, slender, gray-brown, 5 1/2 - 6 in. long; bracts shorter than their scales. Mts. of Cent, and S. Spain; often gregarious. —Not hardy north of the middle states.}}
Spanish Fir. Tree, 70-80 ft.: trunk 4-6 ft. in diam.: lvs. short, broad, rigid, sharp-pointed, bright green, spreading from all sides of the stiff branchlets: cones cylindrical, slender, gray-brown, 5 1/2 - 6 in. long; bracts shorter than their scales. Mts. of Cent, and S. Spain; often gregarious. —Not hardy north of the middle states.}}
==Cultivation==
==Cultivation==
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==Varieties==
==Varieties==
The Moroccan variety, '''Moroccan Fir''' ''Abies pinsapo'' var. ''marocana'', differs in the leaves being less strongly glaucous and the cones slightly longer, 11-20 cm long{{wp}}.
==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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File:Abies pinsapo pollen.jpg
File:Pinsapo de las Escaleretas 2.jpg
File:Piñas del pinsapo.jpg
File:Abies pinsapo Glauca 02.jpg
File:Abies pinsapo JPG1a.jpg
File:SpanishFir.jpg
</gallery>
</gallery>
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