Abies cephalonica, Loudon

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 30

8. A. cephalonica Loudon , Arbor . Fruticet. Brit. 4: 2325 (1838).

U p to 30 m; crown pyramidal; trunk fairly stout. Young twigs glabrous; buds very resinous. Leaves all patent, dense, spreading evenly from the sides and upper surfaces of twigs, less dense and often leaving a parting on under side. Leaves 15-35 x 2-2-5 mm, thick, rigid, acute and pungent, rarely subobtuse; resin-canals marginal. Cones 1 2-1 6x4-5 cm; bracts exserted, deflexed. • Mountains o f Greece between 750 and 1700 m; planted for timber in Italy. G r [It], A. borisii-regis Mattf. , Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 9: 235 (1925), is a name applied to trees in the Balkan peninsula from S. Albania to Thrace. They are of varying form, but always more or less intermediate between 6 and 8. The young twigs are densely pubescent, the buds are resinous, and the leaves are usually like those of 8 in shape and in arrangement. It is probable that they are of hybrid origin; cones are very rarely produced.