Tsuga (Antoine) Carrière Tsuga Tsuga, (Rafin.) Sarg.
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3. Tsuga (Antoine) Carrière View in CoL 1
Evergreen trees with irregularly whorled branches. Short shoots absent. Leaves spirally arranged, linear, flattened or tetragonal; resin-canal 1; leaves borne on prominent, persistent cushions. Male flowers in leaf-axils of previous year’s twigs. Cones ripening in the first year, pendent, ovoid or cylindrical; scales persistent; bracts rarely exserted. Buds globose; leaves with broad, white stomatiferous bands beneath 1. heterophylla Buds ovoid; leaves with narrow, white stomatiferous bands beneath
2. canadensis
1. T. heterophylla (Rafin.) Sarg. View in CoL , Silva N. Amer. 12: 73 (1898).
Tree up to 70 m, with a narrow-pyramidal crown. Buds globose. Leaves 6-20 mm, flattened, with two broad white stomatiferous bands beneath. Cones 20-25 mm, reddish-brown. Occasionally planted for timber in N. W. Europe. [Da G a Ge Hb No.] (W. North America.)
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