Abies fraseri, BY6413


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Description

  • One pressed specimen of a Fraser balsam fir that was collected from Canada by "Mrs. Percival"
  • the original label, still on the specimen, has the penciled notation, "from Elliotts Herb.[m?]." Fraser balsam firs are listed as "Endangered" on the IUCN Red List (2013), its decline due to an alien pathogen (insect) that has been decreasing populations since the 1960's.


Subject

  • Botanical specimens
  • Botany--North America--History
  • Herbaria--History
  • Plant collectors--History--19th century


Details

Contributor
Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
Publisher
The Charleston Museum
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists