Abies firma
Momi Fir
6-9
Japan
 
120 to 150 feet in wild but 40 to 60 in landscape
 
 
Arranged in a comb-like fashion, to 1 1/2” long, broadest at about the middle, sharply two-pointed at apex on young plants, dark green above and furrowed with a few stomatal lines near the apex, lighter green beneath with 2 gray-green bands; of the firs described here this one is quickly noticeable by the sharp prickly apex.
 
 
 
Cones 3 1/2 to 5” long by 1 i/2 to 2” wide, brown.

 

Supposed to be one of the more heat tolerant fir species and grows well in the Southern United States

 
 
 

 

 
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