Abies koreana

Korean fir the pine or Pinaceae family is native to the higher mountains of South Korea and is very popular as an ornamental plant in gardens in cool climates because of its attractive vivid green foliage and also prolific and attractive cones even on quite young trees only 1–2 m tall.

• Needles are flattened, 1–2 cm long and 2.0–2.5 mm wide, strongly upcurved to erect , glossy dark green above, and with two broad, vividly white bands of stomata below, and slightly notched at the tip.
• Needles are attached to the twig by a base resembling a small suction cup.
• The species is monoecious. Male pollen cones are globular-ovoid, 1 cm long and 0.7 cm wide, reddish-yellow or violet-brown; seed cones are 4–7 cm long and 1.5–2.0 cm broad, upright (unlike pendant spruce cones), dark purple-blue before maturity; the scale bracts are long, green or yellow, and emerge between the scales in the closed cone. The winged seeds are released when the cones disintegrate at maturity about 5–6 months after pollination.
• Buds are ovoid, resinous; bark is smooth with resin blisters and grey-brown in colour, becoming furrowed and plate-like with age.