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Abies alba
Abies alba, the European silver fir or sapin-blanc, is a large evergreen conifer in the pine family, native from the Pyrenees and Alps to the Carpathians and the Balkans.
Abies balsamea
Abies balsamea, balsam fir (also Canadian balsam, eastern fir), a small to medium boreal conifer of northeastern North America, 12-27 m tall, a popular Christmas tree, pulpwood source, and Least Concern species.
Abies concolor
Abies concolor, white fir or concolor fir, a drought-tolerant fir of western North American mountains, with two varieties, blue-green citrus-scented needles, upright cones, Least Concern status, and wide ornamental and timber use.
Abies grandis
Abies grandis, grand fir (lowland white fir, yellow fir), a tall Pinaceae conifer native from SW Canada to N. California; rapid-growing, shade-tolerant, to 76 m, widely planted in Europe for timber and Christmas trees.
Abies guatemalensis
Abies guatemalensis (Guatemalan fir, pinabete): endangered evergreen fir of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador; southernmost fir worldwide, CITES Appendix I, threatened by logging and Christmas-greenery harvesting.
Abies koreana
Abies koreana (구상나무), Korean fir, an endangered Pinaceae conifer endemic to South Korean mountains at 1,000–1,900 m, described by E.H. Wilson in 1920, with blue-violet cones and many garden cultivars.
Abies lasiocarpa
Abies lasiocarpa, subalpine fir (also alpine fir, corkbark fir var. arizonica), a western North American fir from Yukon and Alaska to Arizona and New Mexico, dominant in cold high-elevation spruce-fir forests, highly fire-sensitive, with documented range-wide decline.
Abies nordmanniana
Abies nordmanniana, the Nordmann or Caucasian fir, is a conifer native to the mountains of the eastern Black Sea and the dominant Christmas tree species grown in Europe.
Abies procera
Abies procera, noble fir (syn. Abies nobilis), a Pacific Northwest true fir of the Cascade Range and Coast Ranges, the largest Abies species, reaching 70-80 m; shade-intolerant, hybridizes with Abies magnifica, IUCN Least Concern.
Abies religiosa
Abies religiosa, sacred fir or oyamel, a Mexican fir of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt at 2,400-3,600 m; the overwintering host of monarch butterflies, IUCN Least Concern but declining.
Abies sibirica
Abies sibirica, Siberian fir (пихта сибирская), a Pinaceae conifer described by Ledebour in 1833 with the largest range of any Abies, from Eastern Europe to the Russian Far East, hardy to −50 °C and threatened by drought-driven dieback and Polygraphus proximus.
Abies spectabilis
Abies spectabilis (Himalayan silver fir, East Himalayan fir, syn. Abies webbiana) is a Near Threatened Himalayan fir, dominant from about 3,000–4,050 m from Afghanistan to Nepal, studied widely for climate-growth responses.
Abies veitchii
Abies veitchii (シラビソ, shirabiso), known as Veitch's silver fir or Veitch fir, is a fir native to Japan, growing at high elevations on Honshu and Shikoku.
Abies vejarii
Abies vejarii (Vejar fir, hayarín) is a fir described by Martínez in 1942, endemic to Sierra Madre Oriental mountains of northeastern Mexico at 2,200–3,300 m, reaching 40 m, with exserted-bract cones and relict, reduced populations.
Balsam woolly adelgid
The balsam woolly adelgid (Adelges piceae) is a tiny, flightless European insect introduced to North America around 1900 that has killed large numbers of balsam, Fraser, and subalpine firs.
Fir
Fir (Abies, silver firs) is a genus of about 58–60 evergreen conifer species of the Northern Hemisphere, with flat needles and erect cones that disintegrate on the tree; includes threatened species like Abies nebrodensis and excludes Douglas fir.
Fraser fir
Fraser fir, also called she-balsam, is an evergreen conifer native to high elevations in the southern Appalachian Mountains and a leading North American Christmas tree species.