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Sicilian Fir (Abies nebrodensis) is a fir native to the Monti Nebrodi mountains in northern Sicily. It is a medium-size evergreen coniferous tree growing to 15-25 m tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 1 m. It occurs at altitudes of 1400-1,600 m. As a result of deforestation it is now extremely rare, with only 21 mature trees surviving; replanting programmes are meeting with limited success due to heavy grazing pressure by livestock belonging to local farmers.

The leavesThis article is about the leaf a plant organ. See Leaf (disambiguation) for other meanings. In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the chloroplast con are needle-like, flattened, 1.5-2.5 cm long and 2 mm wide by 0.5 mm thick, glossy dark green above, and with two greenish-white bands of stomata below. The tip of the leaf is blunt with a notched tip, but sometimes with a pointed tip, particularly on shoots high on older trees. The conesA cone (in formal botanical usage: strobilus plural strobili) is an organ on plants in the division Pinophyta ( conifers) that contains the reproductive structures. The familiar woody cone is the seed-producing female cone. The male cones, which produces are 10-16 cm long and 4 cm broad, with about 150 scales, each scale with an exserted bract and two winged seedThis writeup is about biological seeds; for the Buddhist metaphor, see bija. A seed is the ripened ovule of gymnosperm or angiosperm plants. The importance of the seed relative to more primitive forms of reproduction and dispersal is attested to by the sus; they disintegrate when mature to release the seeds.

It is closely related to Silver FirSilver Fir : Plantae : Pinophyta : Pinopsida : Pinales : Pinaceae Abies alba Binomial name Abies alba Silver Fir or European Silver Fir Abies alba is a fir native to the mountains of Europe, from the Pyrenees north to Normandy, east to the Alps and the Ca A. alba, which replaces it in the Apennine MountainsThis article is about the terrestrial mountain range. There is also a range of mountains on the Moon named Apennine Mountains (Moon The Apennine Mountains (Italian: Appennini stretch 1000 km from the north to the south of Italy along its east coast, formi of ItalyThe Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Italia is a country in the south of Europe, consisting mainly of a boot-shaped peninsula together with two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. To the north, where it borders France, Switzer and elswhere further north in EuropeFor the band of the same name, see Europe (band . Europe is a continent forming the westermost part of the Eurasian supercontinent. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Se; some botanists treat Sicilian Fir as a variety of Silver Fir, as Abies alba var. nebrodensis.