the Evergreen tree of family pine (Pinaceae), height 20-50 m, with konusovidnoi a crone and shelled burovato-sulphur a bark. Grows on damp places on rich loamy soils, rising in mountains on height to 1800 m above sea level (forms pure fir groves). Growth places - the Central Europe. Widespread across the central, Northern and Northeast Europe above 69 ° northern width, to the north from Pireneev to Russia and Scandinavia. Other kinds: a fur-tree ayanskaya (Picea ajanensis Fisch. ex Carr.), a fur-tree Korean (Picea koraiensis Nakai), a fur-tree Siberian (Picea obovata Ldb.).
