Description

Abies alba, the European silver fir or silver fir, is a fir native to the mountains of Europe. The bark and wood of silver fir are rich in antioxidative polyphenols. Six phenolic acids were identified (gallic, homovanillic, protocatehuic, p-hydroxybenzoic, vanillic and p-coumaric). The extract from the trunk was shown to prevent atherosclerosis in guinea pigs and to have cardioprotective effect in isolated rat hearts.

Scientific classitication

Family: Pinaceae

Genus: Abies

Common Name

Silver fir

Reference

Elena Mosca, Fernando Cruz, Jèssica Gómez-Garrido, Luca Bianco, Christian Rellstab, Sabine Brodbeck, Katalin Csilléry, Bruno Fady, Matthias Fladung, Barbara Fussi, Dušan Gömöry, Santiago C González-Martínez, Delphine Grivet, Marta Gut, Ole Kim Hansen, Katrin Heer, Zeki Kaya, Konstantin V Krutovsky, Birgit Kersten, Sascha Liepelt, Lars Opgenoorth, Christoph Sperisen, Kristian K Ullrich, Giovanni G Vendramin, Marjana Westergren, Birgit Ziegenhagen, Tyler Alioto, Felix Gugerli, Berthold Heinze, Maria Höhn, Michela Troggio, David B Neale, A Reference Genome Sequence for the European Silver Fir (Abies alba Mill.): A Community-Generated Genomic Resource, G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, Volume 9, Issue 7, 1 July 2019, Pages 2039–2049, https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.119.400083