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Abies cilicica
Also called Syrian fir, Cilicica Fir, Taurus Fir, Cicilian Fir
Cilician fir is a large conifer tree from the mountains of southern Turkey, Lebanon and Syria, grown mainly as a forest or landscape tree rather than a houseplant. It needs cool, moist mountain conditions and full sun to light shade to thrive.
Abies cilicica, also known as Cilician fir or Taurus fir, is a species of conifer in the family Pinaceae. It is found mainly in southern Turkey, and in a lesser measure in Lebanon and Syria. Abies cilicica and Cedrus libani, together with Acer hyrcanum subsp. tauricolum and Sorbus torminalis subsp. orientalis, are the predominant trees in the phytocoenosis Abeti-Cedrion, a type of forest of the middle and eastern Taurus Mountains of Turkey. These forests occur between 800 and 2,100 metres elevation. Over 5,000 years of logging, burning, and grazing have reduced these forests to enclaves.
In 2009 at Berenice Troglodytica, the Egypto-Roman port on the Red Sea, archaeologists found: "two blocks of resin from the Syrian fir tree (Abies cilicica), one weighing about 190 g and the other about 339 g, recovered from 1st-century AD contexts in one of the harbour trenches.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Abies cilicica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
