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Eastern Hemlock
Tsuga canadensis
Distinguishing Features: Young twigs are fuzzy, small cones have smooth scale edges
- Type: Evergreen
- Form at maturity: pyramidal, with a slender, nodding crown, Typically grows 40-70 feet tall
- Leaf: Leaves are spirally arranged and 2-ranked, needles are flattened, 0.25 to 0.75 inch long, new foliage is dark green above with 2 whitish bands on the underside, leaf margins minutely serrulate
- Flower: Monoecious, with male and female flowers
- Bark: Overall brown color, bark changes from smooth, to flaky and scaly, and finally to wide flat ridges with age
- Fruit or Seed: Thimble-like, light brown cones to 3/4 inch long
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Tsuga canadensis form
Tsuga canadensis leaf
Tsuga canadensis fruit
