Abies veitchiiLindl.

Veitch FirVeitch's FirVeitch's silver-firChristmastree

WFO wfo-0000511444 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Abies veitchii, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. a Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-11-05 / obs. 11721949
Abies veitchii, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. b Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52374837
Abies veitchii, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. c Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11721773
Abies veitchii, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. d Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52376435
Abies veitchii, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. e Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11721957
Abies veitchii, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. f Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11721952
Abies veitchii, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. g Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52375528
Abies veitchii, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. h Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52376175

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Abies veitchii is native: Japan Japan
Native distribution of Abies veitchii, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Japan JAP ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Abies eichleri Lauche
  • Abies nordmanniana var. eichleri (Lauche) Beissn.
  • Abies sikokiana Nakai
  • Abies veitchii f. olivacea (Shiras.) Cinovskis
  • Abies veitchii subsp. sikokiana Silba
  • Abies veitchii var. komagatakensis Hayashi
  • Abies veitchii var. nikkoensis Mayr
  • Abies veitchii var. olivacea Shiras.
  • Abies veitchii var. reflexa Koidz.
  • Picea veitchii (Lindl.) Gordon & Glend.
  • Pinus nephrolepis var. veitchii (Lindl.) Voss
  • Pinus selenolepis Parl.
  • Pinus veitchii (Lindl.) W.R.McNab

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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