Abies nephrolepis

Khingan fir is in the pine or Pinaceae family and is native to northeastern China , the Koreas and southeastern Russia. Species is closely related to Abies sachalinensis, Abies koreana, Abies veitchii, and Abies sibirica.

• Trees can reach 30 m tall; tree crown is narrow conic to columnar.
• Needles are flat, 1.5–3.0 cm long, 1.5-2.0 mm broad, glaucous green above with a broad stripe of stomata, and two blue-white stomatal bands below; the fresh leaf scars are reddish. They are arranged spirally on the shoot, twisted to be above the shoots. Needles are attached to the twig by a base resembling a small suction cup.
• The species is monoecious. Cones are erect, 4.5–7 cm long and 2-3 cm broad, green or purplish, ripening to gray-brown and often very resinous. The tips of the bract scales stick out slightly from the seed scales. Cones are fragmenting, disintegrating at maturity of late autumn, releasing 2 winged seed from each cone scale.
• Buds are globose, small, resinous, tan to dark brown; bark on young trees is smooth, gray, and with resin blisters, becoming rough and fissured or scaly on old trees.