银冷杉外型呈现漂亮的绿色金字塔状，带略白色的枝枒，常被联想为传统的圣诞树；生于欧洲山区的原生植物，为常绿的松科植物，成树高50至60米，树干直径阔1.5米，树叶为针状，呈墨绿色。

1. ↑ Abies alba. IUCN濒危物种红色名录. 版本2011.1. 国际自然保护联盟. 2014 [28 August 2014]. 

Abies alba, the European silver fir or silver fir, is a fir native to the mountains of Europe, from the Pyrenees north to Normandy, east to the Alps and the Carpathians, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and south to Italy, Bulgaria and northern Greece.