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11/12/99

Abies concolor--White Fir


Hardiness Zones: 3 to 7
Height: 50 ft Spread: 20 ft Form: (Vis. 5) pyramidal
Type: narrow-leaved evergreen
Annual Growth Rate: 12 to 18 inches

Comments: White Fir offers distinctively soft foliage,
(Vis. 6) especially those trees with bluish needles. This
tree makes a good substitute for the spruces. White fir can
take exposure and will withstand heat and drought better
than most firs but avoid heavy clay or high pH soils. As
a Christmas tree, White Fir remains fresh and retains its
needles for two weeks or more if provided with water.

Cultivars:
'Blue Cloak' - Bluish foliage.
'Blue Globe' - Bluish foliage, rounded habit.
'Blue Select' - Good bluish foliage coloration.
'Candicans' - A pyramidal plant (Vis. 3) that has bluish
foliage (Vis. 4).
'Compacta' - (Vis. 1) compact and pyramidal
'Conica' - A compact plant with a conical habit.
'Dwarf Blue' - The name says it all a dwarf with bluish
foliage.
'Gables Weeping' - slow grower with drooping branches,
a mounded plant with a weeping appearance.
'Glenmore' Bluish-green foliage, dense plant.
'Nana' - Dwarf, mounded plant.
'Select Blue' - Bluish foliage.
'Sherwood Blue' - Bluish foliage
'Winter Gold' - Yellowish-green foliage in summer become
golden in winter.

Reference for Cultivars: Iseli Nursery 1999, Sheridan
Nurseries 1999, Gee Farms 1999, Willoway Nurseries 1999.


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