Common Names
Cheng fir (1).Taxonomic notes
Has been placed in synonymy with A. delavayi but is here treated as a distinct species, albeit quite similar to A. forrestii. This species is unique in the Database because it has no known range. It was described from material collected in arboreta in England, Scotland and Ireland, derived from seed collected in Yunnan by George Forrest in 1931. Given this provenance, it is possibly a hybrid involving A. chensiensis ssp. salouenensis (1).Description
See (1).Range
Cultivated in sundry UK arboreta, probably native to China: Yunnan (1).Big Tree
Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
Observations
Remarks
Citations
(1) Farjon 1990.[Abies] [Pinaceae] [home]
This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
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Edited by Christopher J. Earle
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Last modified on 18-Jan-1999