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An Eastern Hemlock branch at the Kortright Centre for Conservation. Tsuga canadensis, also known as eastern hemlock, [3] eastern hemlock-spruce, [4] or Canadian hemlock, and in the French-speaking regions of Canada as pruche du Canada, is a coniferous tree native to eastern North America. It is the state tree of Pennsylvania. [5]
Tsuga (/ ˈ s uː ɡ ə /, [3] from Japanese 栂 (ツガ), the name of Tsuga sieboldii) is a genus of conifers in the subfamily Abietoideae of Pinaceae, the pine family.The English-language common name "hemlock" arose from a perceived similarity in the smell of its crushed foliage to that of the unrelated plant hemlock. [4]
The distribution of T. mertensiana stretches from Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, to northern Tulare County, California. [4] [5] [6] Its range fairly closely matches that of T. heterophylla (western hemlock), found less than 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the Pacific Ocean, apart from an inland population in the Rocky Mountains in southeast British Columbia, northern Idaho, and western Montana.
Tsuga heterophylla, the western hemlock [2] or western hemlock-spruce, [3] is a species of hemlock native to the northwest coast of North America, with its northwestern limit on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and its southeastern limit in northern Sonoma County, California. [4] [5] The Latin species name means 'variable leaves'. [6]
In the riparian habitats surrounding streams, hemlock trees provide shade to keep the water cool during the summer, allowing cold-water fish like brook trout to thrive (https://bit.ly/3I3sbcQ ...
Tsuga sieboldii, also called the southern Japanese hemlock, or in Japanese, simply tsuga (栂), is a conifer native to the Japanese islands of Honshū, Kyūshū, Shikoku and Yakushima. In Europe and North America the tree is sometimes used as an ornamental and has been in cultivation since 1861.
Carolina hemlock Pinaceae (pine family) 262 Tsuga chinensis: Chinese hemlock Pinaceae (pine family) Tsuga diversifolia: Northern Japanese hemlock Pinaceae (pine family) Tsuga dumosa: Himalayan hemlock Pinaceae (pine family) Tsuga forrestii: Forest Hemlock Pinaceae (pine family) Tsuga heterophylla: western hemlock Pinaceae (pine family) 263 ...
Branches that are 2 to 3 years old are greyish brown or dark grey with leaf scars. The wood from the tree is a brownish yellow with a fine structure and straight veins. [3] The leaves are spirally arranged, pointing forward on the branches and placed distantly from one another compared to other species in the genus Tsuga. They are linear in ...