A medium-size evergreen coniferous tree growing to 25-35 m (rarely 40 m) tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 1 m. The leaves are needle-like, flattened, 1.5-3 cm long and 2 mm wide by 0.5 mm thick, glossy dark green above, and with two blue-white bands of stomata below. The tip of the leaf is pointed, usually fairly sharply but sometimes with a blunt tip, particularly on slow-growing shoots on older trees. Male cones ovoid, 14 mm long by 4 mm wide. Female cones narrowly cylindrical, brownish-red to violet, apex obtuse or with a nipple, somewhat resinous, 12-16 cm long by 3.8 cm wide; scales cuneiform, somewhat triangular; bracts short, erect, slightly protruding, golden-brown, triangularly pointed, about 2/3 the height of the scale. Seeds angular, reddish, winged, 12-19 mm long

Abies cephalonica Loud.
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