The Nordmann fir is the most popular Christmas tree in German living rooms, but the evergreen fir also likes to decorate your garden in the long term, because the Nordmann fir not only looks great and smells wonderfully of forest and fir trees, it also has healing powers, which is why you can also use it in naturopathy Use comes. In addition, the green tips of the shoots are increasingly used in the kitchen to season dishes or to make honey or ice cream.

 The Nordmann fir (Abies nordmanniana), also known as the Caucasus fir, originally comes from the western Caucasus. There the evergreen wood grows preferably on clay soils at altitudes of 1,000 to 2,000 meters. The Nordmann fir belongs to the pine family (Pinaceae). The tree owes its name to its discoverer Alexander von Nordmann, a Finnish botanist. The Nordmann fir was introduced to Europe around the middle of the 19th century.