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Not far to go to the next featured tree, in fact just across the road. Here a majestic, sort-of fir tree awaits. You’ll see quite a lot of these in British Columbia as it is originally from around these parts. Our next featured tree: The Douglas-Fir.

A really super Douglas-Fir Tree
Douglas-Fir
Proper Name: Pseudotsuga menziesii
Common Name: Douglas-Fir, Coastal Douglas-Fir, Oregon Pine, Douglas Spruce
Description: A true NW American native, this evergreen tree if left can grow very tall indeed. It has solitary flat needles which have a lighter green underside to the darker coloured top. The bark is grey and smooth when young but when older it has deep orangey fissures. It’s not a true fir (hence the hypen!) because the cones do not sit upright on it’s branches but instead hang down.
Defining Feature: It has very distinctive three-forked bracts between the scales on its cones (see picture below). We think they look like a mouse’s back legs and tail. What do you think?
Take a close look, can you see the mice!