Foliage Notes:
Green (Needles are an attractive green-black color)
Fruit Notes:
Green;brown (Emerging cones;Mature cones are a reddish-brown)
Soil Notes:
Prefers, acidic, moist, well-drained soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
While it generally only reaches a height of up to 60', in the wild there are cases of Abies nordmannia being over 200' tall. The dark green to black needles are 1 to 1 1/2" long by 1/16 to 1/2" wide. The needles point forward and up and the tips of the needles are rounded. The cones are 5-6" long and reddish-brown at maturity, found on the upper canopy of the tree.
