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Hemlocks — Part 1

Genus TSUGA, Carr.

TALL, graceful trees of pyramidal form, with flexible tip shoots and pendulous, much-divided horizontal limbs. Leaves evergreen, petioled, flat and 2-ranked (except one). Flowers monoecious, solitary, in early spring. Fruit annual cones; small and oval (except one), with thin, entire scales. Wood soft, pale, cross-grained, stiff.