Abies sachalinensis

Sakhalin fir is in the pine or Pinaceae family and is native to Sakhalin Island and the southern Kurils (Russia) and northern Hokkaido (Japan).

• Tree crown is pyramidal, flattening out with age, with long and slender branches. It can grow to a height of up to 30 m.
• Needles are 1–3.5 cm long and 1–2.2 mm. wide, blunt-pointed, no notch, spreading outwards and upwards; colour is shiny fresh green above, greenish-white below due to the stomatal lines below. They are attached to the twig by a base resembling a small suction cup.
• The species is monoecious. Male pollen cone is 1.4 cm long and 7 mm. wide, ovoid, yellowish-green, stamen dark purple; female seed cone is 5–8 cm long by 2.5–3.0 cm wide, upright (unlike pendant spruce cones) cylindrical, rounded at the tip, resinous, brown to dark purple when young, maturing to blue-black to black-brown with age. Bracts of the seed cones are yellowish to reddish and are hidden by the scales or protrude slightly. Cones disintegrate (fragment) in the late fall, releasing winged seeds.
• Buds are 10–14 mm in diameter, ovoid-conical, partially hidden by the leaves, chocolate brown with white resin; buds and branchlets are densely pubescent.
• Bark is grayish-white, becoming rough with age.