PLANTS OF SILVER FIR - ABIES ALBA

Large evergreen coniferous tree growing to 30-50 m tall with a trunk diameter of up to 1.5 m. The leaves are needle-like, flattened, glossy dark green above, and with two greenish-white bands of stomata below. The cones are 10 to cm long.

Medium to fast growing. It is a fir native to the mountains of Europe, from the Pyrenees north to Normandy, east to the Alps and the Carpathians, and south to southern Italy and northern Serbia, where it intergrades with the closely related Bulgarian Fir.