Abies sachalinensis
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| Abies sachalinensis | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Pinophyta |
| Class: | Pinopsida |
| Order: | Pinales |
| Family: | Pinaceae |
| Genus: | Abies |
| Species: | A. sachalinensis |
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| Abies sachalinensis F.Schmidt |
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Abies sachalinensis (Sakhalin fir) is a species of conifer in the family Pinaceae. It is found in Sakhalin island and southern Kurils (Russia), and also in northern Hokkaido (Japan).
The first "discovery" by a European was by Carl Friedrich Schmidt (1811 – 1890), the German botanist on the Russian island of Sakhalin in 1866, but he did not introduce it to Europe. The plant was re-discovered by the English plant-collector, Charles Maries in 1877 near Aomori on the main Japanese island of Honshū, who initially thought it to be a variety of Abies veitchii.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ James Herbert Veitch (2006 reprint). Hortus Veitchii. Caradoc Doy. pp. 80. ISBN 0-9553515-0-2.
- Conifer Specialist Group 1998. Abies sachalinensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 July 2007.
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