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Tsuga canadensis |
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Canadian or Eastern Hemlock |
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Eastern United States |
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Upright and pyramidal, with wide-spreading to
pendulous branches, graceful. |
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40-70 feet tall with a spread of 25-35 feet |
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Plants are
monoecious. Staminate cones are light
yellow, pistillate pale green in color. |
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Needles are ¼-⅔ inch long, 2 ranked on the
stem, toothed, lustrous dark green in color,
with 2 white stomata lines beneath. |
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Cones are slender-stalked, ½-1 inch long,
nearly blunt at the apex, brown at maturity. |
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- 'Bradshaw' - Densely pyramidal globosa-dense
and rounded, as broad as high named
- 'Kingsville' - narrow fastigiate clone
- 'Macrophylla' - slightly longer and
wider than the species
- 'Pendula' - Sargent Hemlock - twice as
broad as high, flat topped with pendulous
side branches - a very graceful specimen
- 'Pomfret' - faster growing but dense and
pyramidal in habit
- 'Taxifolia' - yewlike foliage
- 'Westonigra' - very dark green foliage.
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