Important Forest Trees of the United States 



131. Pacific silver 132. Grand fir. 133- Noble fir. 134. California red fir. 



fir. 



Principal uses: Same as No. 129. 



KK. Needles 4-angled, or both 4-angled and flat. 



133. NOBLE FIR, Abies procera Rehd. (white fir [lumber], red fir; A. nobilis (Dougl.) 

 Lindl., not A. Dietr.). 



Large tree of Northwest Pacific coast region. Bark gray brown, smoothish, becoming 

 furrowed and broken into irregular scaly plates. Needles of lower branches flat and of 

 top branches 4-angled, 1 to 1 l /z inches long, blue green. Cones upright, 4 to 6 inches long, 

 purplish brown, with long greenish bracts covering the cone scales. 



Principal uses: Lumber for interior finish, moldings, sidings, and millwork, aircraft 

 construction, Venetian blinds, ladder rails, and boxes. Pulpwood. Ornamental. 



134. CALIFORNIA RED FIR, Abies magnified A. Murr. (golden fir [lumber], white fir 

 [lumber], red fir). 



Large tree (the largest native true fir) of Oregon and California. Bark reddish brown, 

 thick, deeply furrowed into narrow ridges. Needles 4-angled, $4 to 1 /a inches long, blue 

 green. Cones upright, 6 to 9 inches long, purplish brown. 



Principal uses: Same as No. 129. 



FF (F on p. 802). Leaves scalelike, less than 



needlelike (to $4 mcn l n g)- 

 L. Leaves single SEQUOIA (Sequoia). 



inch long, or both scalelike and 



135. REDWOOD, Sequoia sempervirens (D. Don) Endl. (coast redwood, California 

 redwood). 



Large tree (the world's tallest tree species) of Pacific coast in California and south- 

 western Oregon. Bark reddish brown, thick, deeply furrowed, fibrous. Leaves both scalelike 

 and needlelike, flat, slightly curved, unequal in length, l / to % inch long, dark green, 

 spreading in 2 rows. Cones 94 to 1 inch long, reddish brown, maturing the first year. 



Principal uses: Important timber tree. Largely for building construction and bridges 

 and other heavy construction. Also boxes and crates, planing-mill products, general mill- 

 work, paneling, tanks, caskets, greenhouse construction. Insulating material is made from 

 the bark. Ornamental. (State tree of California.) 



136. GIANT SEQUOIA, Sequoia gigantea (Lindl.) Decne. (bigtree, Sierra redwood; S. 

 wellingtonia Seem. ) . 



Large tree (including the world's largest and oldest) with swollen base, Sierra Nevada, 



