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Abies procera, the Glossary

Abies procera, the noble fir, also called red fir and Christmas tree, is a species of fir native to the Cascade Range and Pacific Coast Ranges of the northwestern Pacific Coast of the United States.^[1]

37 relations: Abies amabilis, Abies magnifica, Alfred Rehder, Arboretum de Villardebelle, Award of Garden Merit, Bark (botany), California, Cascade Range, Christmas tree, Conifer, Conifer cone, Cultivar, David Douglas (botanist), De Havilland Mosquito, Douglas fir, Evergreen, Fir, Hybrid (biology), Leaf, Oregon, Pacific Coast Ranges, Paper, Resin, Royal Air Force, Royal Horticultural Society, Seed, Shade tolerance, Stoma, The Mountaineers (club), Tree line, Tsuga heterophylla, Tsuga mertensiana, Variety (botany), Washington (state), West Coast of the United States, Wood, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
Trees of the West Coast of the United States

Abies amabilis

Abies amabilis, commonly known as the Pacific silver fir, is a fir native to the Pacific Northwest of North America, occurring in the Pacific Coast Ranges and the Cascade Range. Abies procera and Abies amabilis are Abies and trees of Northern America.

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Abies magnifica

Abies magnifica, the red fir or silvertip fir, is a western North American fir, native to the mountains of southwest Oregon and California in the United States. Abies procera and Abies magnifica are Abies, Flora of the Cascade Range, Flora of the Klamath Mountains, trees of Northern America and trees of the West Coast of the United States.

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Alfred Rehder

Alfred Rehder (4 September 1863 in Waldenburg, Saxony – 25 July 1949 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts) was a German-American botanical taxonomist and dendrologist who worked at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.

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Arboretum de Villardebelle

The Arboretum de Villardebelle (6 hectares) is an arboretum specializing in conifers located in Villardebelle, Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

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Award of Garden Merit

The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established annual award for plants by the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).

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Bark (botany)

Bark is the outermost layer of stems and roots of woody plants.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Cascade Range

The Cascade Range or Cascades is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California.

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Christmas tree

A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer, such as a spruce, pine or fir, or an artificial tree of similar appearance, associated with the celebration of Christmas.

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Conifer

Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms.

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Conifer cone

A conifer cone or pinecone (strobilus,: strobili in formal botanical usage) is a seed-bearing organ on gymnosperm plants.

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Cultivar

A cultivar is a kind of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and which retains those traits when propagated.

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David Douglas (botanist)

David Douglas (25 June 1799 – 12 July 1834) was a Scottish botanist, best known as the namesake of the Douglas fir.

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De Havilland Mosquito

The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito is a British twin-engined, multirole combat aircraft, introduced during the Second World War.

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Douglas fir

The Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is an evergreen conifer species in the pine family, Pinaceae. Abies procera and Douglas fir are Least concern flora of the United States and trees of Northern America.

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Evergreen

In botany, an evergreen is a plant which has foliage that remains green and functional throughout the year.

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Fir

Firs are evergreen coniferous trees belonging to the genus Abies in the family Pinaceae. Abies procera and Fir are Abies.

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Hybrid (biology)

In biology, a hybrid is the offspring resulting from combining the qualities of two organisms of different varieties, subspecies, species or genera through sexual reproduction.

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Leaf

A leaf (leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Pacific Coast Ranges

The Pacific Coast Ranges (officially gazetted as the Pacific Mountain System in the United States) are the series of mountain ranges that stretch along the West Coast of North America from Alaska south to Northern and Central Mexico.

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Paper

Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses, or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through a fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distributed on the surface, followed by pressing and drying.

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Resin

In polymer chemistry and materials science, a resin is a solid or highly viscous substance of plant or synthetic origin that is typically convertible into polymers.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Royal Horticultural Society

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity.

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Seed

In botany, a seed is a plant embryo and food reserve enclosed in a protective outer covering called a seed coat (testa).

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Shade tolerance

In ecology, shade tolerance is a plant's ability to tolerate low light levels.

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Stoma

In botany, a stoma (stomata, from Greek στόμα, "mouth"), also called a stomate (stomates), is a pore found in the epidermis of leaves, stems, and other organs, that controls the rate of gas exchange between the internal air spaces of the leaf and the atmosphere.

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The Mountaineers (club)

The Mountaineers is an alpine club in the US state of Washington.

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Tree line

The tree line is the edge of a habitat at which trees are capable of growing and beyond which they are not.

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Tsuga heterophylla

Tsuga heterophylla, the western hemlock or western hemlock-spruce, is a species of hemlock native to the west coast of North America, with its northwestern limit on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and its southeastern limit in northern Sonoma County, California. Abies procera and Tsuga heterophylla are Flora of the Cascade Range, trees of Northern America and trees of the West Coast of the United States.

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Tsuga mertensiana

Tsuga mertensiana, known as mountain hemlock, is a species of hemlock native to the west coast of North America, found between Southcentral Alaska and south-central California. Abies procera and Tsuga mertensiana are Least concern flora of the United States and trees of Northern America.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abies_procera

Also known as Abies nobilis, Noble Fir, Picea nobilis, Pseudotsuga nobilis.

Abies procera, the Glossary

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Trees of the West Coast of the United States

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