Abies pinsapo
Spanish Fir
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Spanish Fir Seed

Abies pinsapo

£5.00 – £11.00 inc. VAT

Spanish Fir is the National Tree of Andalucia and is now endangered. Narrowly conical in shape with stubby, evergreen grey-green needles giving an ornamental blue-ish appearance from afar. The smaller picture shows one of the few remaining Pinsapo ‘forests’ in the mountains of southern Spain nature reserve area(Grazalema). The trees grow in pockets of soil on the mountainsides. In the valleys are nurseries which are growing trees for replanting into the wild. The nature reserve also holds wild Narcissus and Crocus species.

 

Not for forestry purposes.

Earn up to 11 Points.

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Description

Abies pinsapo

Common Name: Spanish Fir

Native: High altitude southern Spain and northern Morocco

Provenance: Unknown

Size and Spread(10yrs): 4-5m tall, narrow, slow growing.

Treatment: semi-dormant, requires moist pre-chill

Seeds/kg: 6,240    48%viable

Ideal sowing period: autumn or spring

Soil Conditions: Normal, fertile moist but well drained soils,

neutral to acid

Planting instructions: Makes a good specimen tree,

give space to develop a good shape

Mature Height:10m -12m slowly

main pic courtesy ofpinseydra5, Por los caminos de Malaga CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons


			

					

				
	
Additional information




			

			Weight
			5.00 g
		

			

			Genus
			
Abies


		

			

			Size
			
Mini seed pack (approx 15 seeds), Seed pack(approx 75 seeds)


		

			

			Family
			
Pinaceae


		

			

			Hardiness
			
Hardy


		

			

			Life Cycle
			
tree


		

			

			Evergreen
			
evergreen