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Abies fargesii (Farges fir)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Abies fargesii (Chinese: 巴山冷杉) is a species of fir, a coniferous tree in the Pinaceae family. Its common name is Farges' fir, after the French missionary, botanist and plant collector, Paul Guillaume Farges. Abies fargesii can grow very large and be up to 40 metres (130 ft) tall. It is endemic to central China where it is found in Gansu, Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi, and Sichuan provinces. It grows in mountains and river basins at altitudes between 1,500–3,900 metres (4,900–12,800 ft) ASL. The cones of the given fir are 0.8 to 1.5 by 1.3–2 centimetres (0.51–0.79 in). \n* \n*
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Infraspecies

Abies fargesii var. fargesii (Farges' Fir)
Abies fargesii var. faxoniana (Attributes)
Abies fargesii var. sutchuenensis
Abies fargesii var. sutchuensis

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Specific Gravity [3]  0.34
Structure [2]  Tree

Predators

Rhinopithecus roxellana (Golden Snub-nosed Monkey)[4]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 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.
♦ 4Seasonal Variation of Diet and Food Availability in a Group of Sichuan Snub-Nosed Monkeys in Shennongjia Nature Reserve, China; Li Yiming; American Journal of Primatology 68:217–233 (2006)
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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