Decorated fir has become a mandatory attribute of Christmas and changing the year only in the XIX century. Since then, the fashion changed many times both on the Christmas decorations and spruce themselves. The world is popular spruce grown in Denmark. They are also called: Danish Christmas trees. In fact, the so-called Danish spruce – comes from the Caucasus and is not a fir, but a fir. Reports about it Deutsche Welle.
According to the newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau, out of 25 million Christmas firs who are sold annually in Germany, 80 percent are Fir Caucasian. In Germany, this beautiful tree of proper conical form is most often called Nordmanntanne – “Fir Nordman”, by the name of the opening and described by Botany Alexander Von Nordman. It is also called Latin – Abies Nordmanniana.
The full name of the scientist – Alexander Davidovich von Nordman, and his whole life is closely connected with Odessa and the Caucasus. The spectrum of the interests of the scientist was diverse: he was engaged in research of fish, birds, insects, crustaceans … Eight types of mammals were named in his honor. But this is not all: Alexander von Nordman also engaged in paleontology and wrote a four-volume “paleontology of southern Russia”. In addition, the scientist committed several expeditions and participated in excavations in the Crimea and in the Caucasus.
It is there, in the Caucasus, in the mountains at the city of Borjomi in today’s Georgia, at an altitude of more than 1500 meters of meters 35-year-old Nordman found a fir with a straight trunk, thick strong branches and long, dark green needles.
Since the middle of the XIX century, the Nordman Pirch is beginning to grown outside the Caucasus. Gradually, it gets spread in Western Europe. Nordman’s fir is popular not only because of its beauty, but also because it is well saved, not attenuating, at room temperature: if it is properly to care for her, it will have a little up to several weeks. There is another advantage of this type of Christmas or New Year’s Christmas tree: it is not very prickly.