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YUKON 659

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I removed this tree a while back and I was unable to determine what it was :confused: I tried looking it up in a field guide but I still couldn't figure it out. I'm sure with the wealth of knowledge here someone will be able to help me :)

Thanks, Jeff

Hopefully the pictures are clear enough!!!!
 
Closest I can find is White Fir?

Could be a kind of Hemlock, maybe:confused: but the bark doesn't fit.
 
No Mike, I don't know it's a fir. If I knew that, I would have asked the question...What kind of fir is this? The only reference I have is a National Audubon Society "Field Guide To North AmericanTrees" (Eastern Region)

Thanks Toddppm, hopefully someone can verify it.

Jeff
 
I think you are right about white fir, Abies concolor. Are the needles real flexible and rubbery?

Bob Underwood
 
Bob, yes they are. They're also about 1 1/2' long and they grow singularly from the branch. Does this help?

Jeff
 
Either this tree is kinda uncommon around here (Western New York) or I haven't been looking at my tree's too closely!!!! Is it or isn't it common to this area?

Jeff
 
Originally posted by YUKON 659
Is it or isn't it common to this area?
Well, it's not in our Eastern Region Audubon guide, so that should be an indication.&nbsp; See <a href="http://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/index.html">uconn's</a> database of trees.&nbsp; Have a look at the habitat map for white fir and scratch your head.

Roger has a large butternut out by him, so why couldn't you have a misplaced tree by you?

Glen
 
White Fir.

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION:
White fir occurs from Oregon in the Blue Mountains and southern Cascade range, south throughout California and into the San Pedro de Mátir in northern Baja, California; west through parts of southern Idaho, to Wyoming; and south throughout the Colorado Plateau and southern Rocky Mountains in Utah and Colorado, and into the isolated mountain ranges of southern Arizona, New Mexico and northern Mexico [145,309]. U.S. Geological Survey provides a distributional map for white fir.

Rocky Mountain white fir occurs in the mountains of central and southern Colorado to southeast Idaho and eastern Nevada, south to southeastern California and southern Arizona and New Mexico, with localized populations in northwest Mexico [191]. It is only sparingly distributed in the mountains of the eastern Mojave Desert in California [186]. Rocky Mountain white fir is common on the eastern rim of the Great Basin, with the central Great Basin forming a 200-mile gap between the two varieties of white fir [185].

California white fir occurs primarily in the Sierra Nevada, Klamath and Siskiyou mountains of California, and in western Nevada on the eastern slopes of the Sierra [102]. Some report its distribution into the mountains of southwest Oregon south to northern Baja [191], while others report that in the ranges of southern California and northern Baja, white fir more closely resembles the Rocky Mountain variety [316].

It is planted in rural and urban landscapes across the northern and northeastern United States [185,202], and distribution maps include it in Maine and Massachusetts [309].
http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/abicon/distribution_and_occurrence.html
 
I agree with it is a fir. It could also be an alpine fir, were there little sap blisters on the bark?

Kenn
 
Ok Your dealing with an Alpine Fir, I dont know how it got out your way but around here the loggers hate them. Like Justin said they stink and the sap gets every where. Hence the popular logger name of "Piss Fir"

Kenn
 
Fir

OK Lets put this to rest
It is a Fir !!!!
Most Firs have blisters so that is not a clue
You are to far East for a Alpine Fir but it could have been planted by someone
I truley believe this is Abies concolor but if you really want to tell between White or Alpine look at the needles and if they are 2.5 inches long or abouts it is White and if it is about 1.5 inches it is maybe Alpine
John
P.S
Crush the needles on any fir and you will smeel citrus
 
I just got called a bad name with dumb in front of it, I am very loudly informed that the white fir is the real "piss fir" this a result of being reminded about a pair of work trousers that were left in the back of the car one weekend after getting pissed on.
 

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