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What: Abies pinsapo, commonly called Spanish fir, is a stately and majestic specimen evergreen that draws attention with its graceful yet rigid layered branches, narrow conical shape and unusual ...
Grow Spanish fir in full sun and well-drained soil. It grows slowly to 60 feet high and 30 feet wide, in a neat conical shape. Abies pinsapo was a 2005 Great Plant Pick (greatplantpicks.org).
What: Abies pinsapo ‘Glauca’ is an evergreen conifer native to the mountains of Southeast Spain and Northern Morocco. The blue-gray branches are accentuated in the spring by tips of reddish ...
Spanish fir (Abies pinsapo) is a gorgeous conifer that is too rarely seen in Northwest gardens. Hardy to minus-10 degrees, the species originates from the mountains of Spain and Morocco ...
Purple cones. Slow-growing to 16-18 feet tall, 8 feet wide in 25 years. Abies pinsapo 'Aurea' Golden Spanish fir with soft bright gold needles in spring. Grows 4-5 inches a year to 5 feet tall ...
For example, how will populations of Spanish fir (Abies pinsapo) change? This is an endangered species that the Junta de Andalucía (regional government) is tracking, with protection plans in place.
Sylvia Magill, Co Dublin This is not a Scots pine but a fir tree, Abies pinsapo, the Spanish fir. What you describe as red berries – and, to be fair, they do look like luscious ripe raspberries ...