Abies fargesii

Farges’ fir is in the pine or Pinaceae family and is native to central China where it is found in Gansu, Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi, and Sichuan provinces at elevations between 1,500 and 3,000 m. It can grow to over 65 m tall and has a pyramidal crown.

• Leaves are needle-like, spirally arranged, crowded in several overlapping ranks of unequal length, 1.5–4 cm long and 2–3.5 mm wide, twisted at base, needles are flat with margins slightly curving down, apex notched, obtuse or pointed on cone-bearing shoots; color is green above, whitish below with white stomata in two bands divided by a midrib. They are attached to the twig by a base resembling a small suction cup.
• Male cones yellow with red microsporophylls, cylindrical, 13 mm long by 5 mm wide, crowded, near ends of shoots. Female cones are upright, bluish-purple, blunt-tipped, maturing to purplish- or reddish-brown, ovoid-oblong or broadly cylindric, 5–9 cm long and 3–-4 cm across, on very short stems. Seed cones fragment in the fall, dispersing their seeds.
• Vegetative buds ovoid to broadly obtuse, resinous, keeled, 6-8 mm long and 4-5 mm wide, slightly resinous; purple-red. Bark smooth, grey, finely flaky on young trees, becoming grey-brown, scaly, and fissured on old trees.
• For a more detailed description, please consult: https://www.conifers.org/pi/Abies_fargesii.php