Abies bracteata (D.Don) Poit.

Santa lucia fir (en), Sapin de sainte-lucie (fr), Sapin à bractées (fr), Sapin bractéifère (fr), Sapin de Santa-Lucia (fr), Sapin de Sainte-Lucie (fr)

Species

Gymnosperms > Pinales > Pinaceae > Abies

Characteristics

Trees to 25 m; trunk to 1 m diam.; crown spirelike, narrow. Bark red-brown, thin, smooth, with age slightly fissured and broken into appressed scales. Branches diverging from trunk at right angles, the lower often drooping in age; twigs becoming purplish green or brown, glabrous, glaucous when young. Buds exposed, brown, ovate to fusiform, extremely large, not resinous, apex pointed; basal scales short, broad, equilaterally triangular, glabrous, not resinous, margins entire, apex sharp-pointed. Leaves 2.5--  ´ 3mm, 2-ranked to spiraled, stiff; cross section flat, with raised vein abaxially, grooveless to faintly grooved adaxially; odor pungent; abaxial surface with 8--10 stomatal rows on each side of midrib; adaxial surface dark green, lacking stomates; apex sharply pointed; resin canals small, near margins and abaxial epidermal layer. Pollen cones at pollination yellow to yellow-green. Seed cones ovoid, 7--10 ´ 4--5cm, pale purplish brown, borne on stout peduncles, apex round; scales ca. 1.5--2 ´ 2--2.5cm, glabrous; bracts exserted, not reflexed. Seeds 10 ´ 5mm, body deep red-brown; wing about as long as body, deep red-brown; cotyledons ca. 7.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality monoecy
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 4.0 - 8.0
Mature height (meter) 22.5 - 25.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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Fruit color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light 6-9
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity 2-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-8

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) 21 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 20 - 23
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Abies bracteata world distribution map, present in United States of America

Conservation status

Abies bracteata threat status: Near Threatened

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1146685-2
WFO ID wfo-0000511028
COL ID 63YV6
BDTFX ID 101337
INPN ID 717023
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Picea bracteata Abies venusta Pinus venusta Pinus bracteata Abies bracteata Abies venusta Sequoia gigantea