Abies pinsapo
Common name:
Spanish Fir
Spanish Pin Fir
Pronunciation:
A-bez pin-SAH-po
Family:
Pinaceae
Genus:
Type:
Conifer
Native to (or naturalized in) Oregon:
No
- Conifer, evergreen, to 65 ft (20 m), broadly conical, branches in regular whorls, usually forming a symmetrical crown. Needles radially erect, stiff, thick, 8-15 mm long, very sharp-pointed. Twigs brownish-green, hairless. Cones cylindrical, erect, 10-15 cm long.
- Hardy to USDA Zone 7 Mountains of southern Spain, between 1000 and 1800 m.
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Several selections, including:
- ‘Aurea’ - golden-yellow needles
- ‘Glauca’ - bluish-green needles
- ‘Clarke’ - dwarf
- 'Horstmann' - broad dwarf, silvery blue-green needles
- ‘Pendula’ - nodding branches
- A. p. subsp. marocana (Moroccan Fir) - has flatter, wider needles, and larger cones than typical Abies pinsapo.
- pinsapo: old Spanish word meaning pine-fir, pino(pine) and sapino (fir). Or possibly short for pinus saponis, soap-fir, since twigs crushed in water yield a kind of soap (Jacobson, 1996).
- Oregon State Univ. campus: east side Gleeson Hall.
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plant habit
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plant habit
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branchlets, needles
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needles
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male (pollen) cones
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seed cones, mature
