Abies pinsapo

Spanish fir in the pine or Pinaceae family is native to southern Spain and northern Morocco. A cultivar, A. pinsapo 'Glauca', was developed by the French in 1867 and is now found all across Europe and North America as a popular ornamental tree.

• Needles are short (1.5–2.0 cm long), rectangular, sharp, arranged completely all round the shoots, giving it a very distinct appearance that has made it popular as an ornamental tree. They are attached to the twig by a base resembling a small suction cup.
• The species is monoecious; male cones are reddish, on branch tips, facing downward; female cones are 9–16 cm long and 3–5 cm wide, upright, cylindrical, green-purple ripening to brown, and near the top of the crown, appearing in April or May. They are fragmenting in the fall, releasing winged seeds.
• Buds are globose, 5 mm long and 4 mm wide, very resinous; bark is smooth, dark gray, becoming longitudinally fissured, rough and scaly with age.