Tsuga heterophylla
Tsuga heterophylla subsp. var. | Western hemlock | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Tsuga heterophylla, Sarg. (T. Albertiana, Senecl. T. Mertensiana, Carr.). Tree, attaining 200 ft., with short slender, usually pendulous branches forming a rather narrow pyramidal head in older, but rather broad in young trees: young branchlets pale yellowish brown, pubescent: lvs. linear, obtuse or acutish, distinctly grooved and dark green above, with 2 white lines below, 1/2 – 3/4 in. long: cones oblong-ovoid, sessile, 3/4 - 1 in. long; scales oval, slightly puberulous outside. Alaska to Calif., west to Mont. S.S. 10:605. G.C. III. 12:11. Var. argenteo-variegata, Schneid. Tips of the young branchlets white. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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