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The Red Fir or Silvertip fir (Abies magnifica) is a western North American fir, native to the mountains of southwest Oregon and California in the United States. It is a large evergreen tree typically up to 40-60 meter tall and 2 meter trunk diameter, rarely to 76 meter tall and 3 meter diameter, with a narrow conic crown. The bark on young trees is smooth, grey, and with resin blisters, becoming orange-red, rough and fissured on old trees. The leaves are needle-like, 2-3.5 centimeter long, waxy pale blue-green above and below with strong bands, and an acute tip. They are arranged spirally on the shoot, but twisted slightly s-shaped to be upcurved above the shoot. The cones are erect, 9-21 centimeter long, yellow-green (occasionally purple), ripening brown and disintegrating to release the winged seeds in fall.
Tree
35 - 220 ft Tall
Upright, Pyramidal
Slow
Evergreen
Spring
Full Sun, Partial Shade
Moderate
Moderate
Medium
Grows best on the deeper soils associated with glacial deposits and good surface mulch.
Soil PH: -
For propagating by seed: 1-2 mos. stratification. Abies seed storage life is less than one year unless kept refrigerated.
Red Fir Forest
Butterflies and moths supported
3 confirmed and 56 likely
Modoc Budworm
Choristoneura retiniana
Red-Striped Needleworm Moth
Epinotia radicana
Cottonwood Dagger Moth
Acronicta lepusculina