Plantae > Tracheophyta > Pinopsida > Pinales > Pinaceae > Abies > Abies delavayiAbies delavayi (Delavay's fir)Language: Chi; Fre; Ger; Ita; Rus Abies delavayi, the Delavay's silver-fir or Delavay's fir, is a species of fir, native to Yunnan in southwest China and adjoining border areas in southeastern Tibet, far northeastern India, northern Myanmar, and far northwestern Vietnam. It is a high altitude mountain tree, growing at elevations of 3,000–4,000 m (exceptionally down to 2,400 m and up to 4,300 m), often occupying the tree line. The species is named after its discoverer, Father Pierre Jean Marie Delavay, who collected it at 3,500–4,000 m on the Cang Mountain near Dali. |
Allergen Potential [1] | Low |  | Flower Type [2] | Monoecious | Leaf Type [2] | Evergreen | Pollinators [2] | Wind | Specific Gravity [3] | 0.4 | Structure [2] | Tree | Usage [2] | Tannin is obtained from the bark;
Wood - light, soft, not very durable. Used for interior work, construction, wood pulp etc; |  | Height [2] | 82 feet (25 m) | Width [2] | 20 feet (6 m) | View Plants For A Future Record : Abies delavayi |
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000) ♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 3Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366.
Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository. |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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