Datasheet
Abies balsamea (balsam fir)
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Top of pagePreferred Scientific Name
- Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.
Preferred Common Name
- balsam fir
Variety
- Abies balsamea f. hudsonia (Jacques) Fernald & Weath.
Other Scientific Names
- Abies balsamea f. nana (J. Nelson) Beissner
- Abies balsamea f. phanerolepis (Fernald) Rehder
- Abies balsamea var. phanerolepis Fernald
- Abies phanerolepis (Fernald) Tang S. Liu
- Pinus balsamea L.
International Common Names
- English: balsam; Canadian balsam; eastern fir
- Spanish: abeto de balsamo
- French: baume du Canada; sapin balsamier; sapin baumier; sapin du Canada
Local Common Names
- Germany: Balsamtanne
- Italy: abete balsamifero
- Netherlands: balsamspar; canadabalsam
- Sweden: balsamgran
EPPO code
- ABIBA (Abies balsamea)
Trade name
- SPF
Taxonomic Tree
Top of page- Domain: Eukaryota
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Spermatophyta
- Subphylum: Gymnospermae
- Class: Pinopsida
- Family: Pinaceae
- Genus: Abies
- Species: Abies balsamea
List of Pests
Top of pageMajor host of:
Acleris variana (hemlock budworm); Adelges piceae (balsam woolly adelgid); Armillaria ostoyae (armillaria root rot); Choristoneura fumiferana (spruce budworm); Coleotechnites piceaella (spruce leaf miner); Lambdina fiscellaria (eastern hemlock looper); Megastigmus specularis (fir seed chalcid); Melampsorella caryophyllacearum (fir broom rust); Monochamus marmorator (balsam fir sawyer); Orgyia leucostigma (white-marked tussock moth); Paradiplosis tumifex (balsam gall midge); Pestalotia hartigii (stem girdling of balsam fir); Phacidium infestans (snow mould); Pucciniastrum goeppertianum (cone blister rust); Senecio vulgaris; Sirex juvencus (steel-blue woodwasp); Stereum sanguinolentum (bleeding conk fungus); Trypodendron lineatum (striped ambrosia beetle)Minor host of:
Arceuthobium pusillum (eastern dwarf mistletoe); Armillaria mellea (armillaria root rot); Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (pine wilt nematode); Dryocoetes confusus (western balsam bark beetle); Fomitopsis pinicola (brown crumbly rot); Gibberella avenacea (Fusarium blight); Gilpinia hercyniae (spruce sawfly); Gremmeniella abietina (Brunchorstia disease); Heterobasidion annosum; Heterobasidion parviporum; Megastigmus milleri (fir seed chalcid); Monochamus titillator (southern pine sawyer); Phytophthora cactorum (apple collar rot); Pityokteines curvidens (fir engraver beetle); Polyporus balsameus (balsam butt rot); Sphaeropsis sapinea (Sphaeropsis blight); Sydowia polyspora (dieback of pine)Wild host of:
Peridroma saucia (pearly underwing moth)Host of (source - data mining):
Dasineura balsamicola (introduced false balsam gall midge); Fusarium oxysporum (basal rot); Hepialus gracilis (graceful ghost moth); Lymantria dispar (gypsy moth); Mindarus abietinus (balsam twig aphid); Monochamus scutellatus (white-spotted sawyer); Neodiprion abietis (balsam fir sawfly); Phytophthora citricola (black hop root rot); Pissodes dubius (balsam bark weevil); Pityokteines sparsus (balsam fir bark beetle); Polygraphus rufipennis (foureyed spruce bark beetle); Tomicus piniperda (common pine shoot beetle); Uredinopsis americana (balsam fir-fern rust)Uses List
Top of pageDrugs, stimulants, social uses
- Religious
Environmental
- Agroforestry
- Windbreak
General
- Ornamental
Materials
- Essential oils
- Fibre
- Gum/resin
- Miscellaneous materials
- Wood/timber
Medicinal, pharmaceutical
- Source of medicine/pharmaceutical
- Traditional/folklore
Wood Products
Top of pageContainers
- Boxes
- Cases
- Cooperage
- Crates
Furniture
Pulp
- Long-fibre pulp
Sawn or hewn building timbers
- For light construction
Wood-based materials
- Fibreboard
- Laminated veneer lumber
- Laminated wood
- Parallel strand lumber
- Particleboard
- Plywood