マツ科モミ属の常緑高木で、学名は Abies firma。英名は Japanese fir、Momi fir。
The Japanese fir (Abies firma) belongs to Pinaceae (the Pine family). It is a tall evergreen tree that is southward from Iwate prefecture of Honshu to Shikoku and Kyushu in Japan. This tree grows fast on low to deep mountain ridges and can reach about 40 m in height. The tree form is cornical and the branches are wheeled. The leaves are dark green and linear with nock-shaped tips. The abaxial sides are glaucescent. The yellow, columnar, male flowers and green, long ovate-elliptic, female flowers bloom at the axils of new branches in June. The green strobiles, about 9-13 cm long, and they ripen in October. The timbers have been used as a stupa (wooden grave tablet) and a coffin.