Scientific name:
Abies grandis General: Tall, straight, stately, to 80 m tall; bark greyish-brown, usually with white mottles, smooth with resin blisters when young, becoming ridged and then scaly with age.
Leaves: Needless flat, tips rounded and notched (sometimes pointed on cone-bearing branches), 2-4 cm long, dark green and grooved above, two white lines of stomata below; in two distinct horizontal rows.
Cones: Pollen cones yellowish; seed cones yellowish-green to green, cylindrical, erect, 5-10 cm long, high in the crown where they fall apart through the autumn.
Ecology: Dry to moist coniferous forest in rainshadow areas, usually with Douglas Fir; river flats to fairly dry slopes, from low to middle elevations.