- BOTANICAL NAME: Abies koreana
- PRONUNCIATION: a-BEEZ core-e-A-na
- COMMON NAME: Korean Fir
- FAMILY: Pinaceae
- NATIVITY: Mountains of Korea.
- GROWTH HABIT: Conical tree.
- SIZE: 15 - 35'.
- HARDINESS: Zone 6 - 8.
- CULTURE: Full sun, cool, moist soils. Is at least as tolerant, if not more so, than most firs grown in the Delaware Valley.
- LANDSCAPE USE: Good specimen tree where a formal but smaller specimen is needed.
- FOLIAGE: Alternate, 1/2 - 3/4" long. Apex of needle rounded or notched, 2 distinct white bands on the underside of each leaf.
- BUDS: Globose, red-brown in color and slightly resinous.
- BARK: Young stems tan-brown to yellowish, sparsely pubescent.
- FRUIT: Cone, 1 1/2 - 3" long and purple in color. Plants are quite prolific and
flower at a young age. A plant with cones is rather attractive.
- PROPAGATION: Seed.
- PESTS: None serious.
- `Prostrata' - low, spreading plant.