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Abies homolepis, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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Abies homolepis

Nikko fir · also Urajiro momi

ConiferEvergreen
21
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
5
cities
74 in
median trunk (188 cm, 19 measured)
23 yr
median age (81% have a planting date)

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Abies homolepis, also known as Nikko fir, is a species of fir native to the mountains of central and southern Honshū and Shikoku, Japan. It thrives at high altitudes in temperate rainforests with significant rainfall and cool, humid summers, and heavy winter snowfall.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Boston · United States
    1223 yr86 in
  2. Helsinki · Finland
    4—2.0 in
  3. Paris · France
    2——
  4. Vancouver · Canada
    2—21 in
  5. Berlin · Germany
    1—13 in

Traits

Form
Conifer
Foliage
Evergreen

Trunk diameters across every city: median 74 in, mean 56 in, 90th percentile 94 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Other Abies in the catalogue

20 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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