Abies fargesii Franch.

Farges' fir (en), Sapin de Farges au sens large (fr)

Species

Gymnosperms > Pinales > Pinaceae > Abies

Characteristics

Trees to 40 m tall; bark dark gray or dark gray-brown, rough, flaking or breaking into irregular plates; branchlets red-brown, gray-brown, or light brown, glabrous, pubescent, or ± rusty brown pubescent; winter buds ovoid or subglobose, resinous. Leaves ascending on upper side of branchlets, pectinately arranged in 2 lateral sets on lower side, dark green and bright adaxially, oblanceolate-linear, flattened, 1-2.5(-3) cm × 1.5-4 mm, stomatal lines in 2 white bands abaxially, resin canals 2, median or marginal, apex emarginate, rarely obtuse or acute. Seed cones ripening dark purple or red-brown, slightly glaucous or not, cylindric or shortly so, 3-10 × 3-4 cm. Seed scales at middle of cones reniform or flabellate-reniform, 0.8-1.5 × 1.3-2 cm. Bracts obovate-cuneate, distal margin erose-denticulate, apex with cusp exserted or slightly so. Seeds obtriangular-ovoid; wing cuneate.
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Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality monoecy
Pollination anemogamy
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Mature width (meter) 2.5 - 4.0
Mature height (meter) 28.0
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Rooting depth (meter) 1.4
Root diameter (meter) 0.6
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Mixed and coniferous forests in mountains, sometimes forming pure stands, growing mainly in grey-brown mountain podzols; at elevations from 2,000-4,000 metres, but mainly at 3,400-3,800 metres.
Light 7-9
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Soil acidity 2-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-8

Usage

Uses medicinal wood
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 21 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 20 - 23
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Images

Abies fargesii unspecified picture

Distribution

Abies fargesii world distribution map, present in China

Conservation status

Abies fargesii threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:261522-1
WFO ID wfo-0000511143
COL ID 8KCF
BDTFX ID 81150
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Abies fargesii Abies fargesii var. tieghemii

Lower taxons

Abies fargesii var. sutchuensis Abies fargesii var. faxoniana Abies fargesii var. fargesii Abies fargesii var. sutchuenensis