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Taxon: Abies alba Mill.

Genus: Abies
Family: Pinaceae. Also placed in: Abietaceae
Nomen number: 629
Place of publication: Gard. dict. ed. 8: Abies no. 1. 1768
Name verified on: 25-May-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 21-Jun-1999
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA).
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.
  • Check AABGA/NAPCC contact person for genus for possible non-NPGS germplasm.


Common names:

  • Christmastree   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • European silver fir   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • silver fir   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • white fir   (Source: HerbSpices ) – English
  • sapin argenté   (Source: HerbSpices ) – French
  • sapin blanc   (Source: HerbSpices ) – French
  • Silbertanne   (Source: HerbSpices ) – German
  • Weißtanne   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  • abete argentato   (Source: HerbSpices ) – Italian
  • abete bianco   (Source: HerbSpices ) – Italian
  • abeto blanco   (Source: HerbSpices ) – Spanish

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • EUROPE
    Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Poland; Switzerland
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Spain

      Cultivated:
  • widely cultivated elsewhere

References:

  • Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. (HerbSpices)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Silba, J. 1986. Encyclopaedia Coniferae. Phytologia Mem. 8:11.
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition. (F Eur ed2)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Abies alba Mill.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Abies alba cultivars
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?629 (09 February 2010)

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