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Taxon: Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.

Genus: Abies
Family: Pinaceae. Also placed in: Abietaceae
Nomen number: 635
Place of publication: Gard. dict. ed. 8: Abies no. 3. 1768
Name verified on: 05-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 26-Jul-2004
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA).
Accessions: 2 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.
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Common names:

  • balsam   (Source: AH 271 ) – English
  • balsam fir   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • Canaan fir   (Source: web document) – English
  • Canada balsam   (Source: AH 271 ) – English
  • eastern fir   (Source: AH 271 ) – English
  • fir balsam   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • sapin balsamier   (Source: HerbSpices ) – French
  • sapin baumier   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  • Balsamtanne   (Source: HerbSpices ) – German

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

References:

  • Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
  • Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. (HerbSpices)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Fowells, H. A. 1965. Silvics of forest trees of the United States. (AH 271)
  • Greuter, W. et al., eds. 2000. International code of botanical nomenclature (Saint Louis Code). (ICBN St Louis) Art. 23.5, Ex. 5, 6.
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States. (AH 519)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.:

  • Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Abies balsamea 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:

More:
  • 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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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?635 (09 February 2010)

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