What makes you think it's not what the tag says?

Mike

If I google "picea abies aurea" it comes back Golden Norway Spruce. If I google "picea koreana aurea" the results show the golden fir i wanted but those results do not include the term "picea" as the label does.

Yeah, it does look like a Fir!

Mike

Has short needles of Korean fir.

I just got back from a visit to a nursery that ordered stock from a PNW grower who shall remain nameless. One of the items was Picea monophylla. There is no Picea monophylla. (Or if you look at it another way, ALL Picea are monophylla). It was a lovely Pinus monophylla. The fact that a grower can get the genus wrong is really mind boggling.

That's a fir, and it does appear to be a golden Korean fir. The label is wrong.

Incidentally, I visit Maple Ridge Nursery frequently. The good news is that not only did you buy what you intended to buy, but that fir is grafted onto abies firma. They graft all of their firs onto firma there. I'm happy to see other customers buying their grafted firs - perhaps it will encourage them to produce more of them!

@Dean... They had quite a selection of abies, although a tad pricey, but I was happy to pay. Now just hoping it will do well in climate. Do you have any insight on that? I'm in east Cobb.

east cobb mean nothing to this MI boy ... ken

First of all, wow, Ken.

ES, they can do very well in East Cobb, although they will grow slower in our climate than in cooler areas of the country (yours will likely take many, many years to reach even the size of the one Ken showed above). There is a beautiful Abies koreana (though 'Silberlocke' not 'Aurea'), purportedly grafted onto firma rootstock, growing quite happily in the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. My own a.k. 'Aurea' took a little bit of a beating during this really unfairly hot and dry summer, but it lives on. Keep yours well watered and out of the hot afternoon sun to increase the chances it will make it. The newly grafted stage is, in my opinion, the most dangerous stage of these plants' lives. Coddle it!