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1 lut 2024 · Hemlock trees are identified by their conical shape, flat, aromatic needle-like leaves, oval or cylindrical seed-bearing cones, and reddish-brown bark. Cultivars of the popular Eastern hemlock or Canadian hemlock are also beautiful landscaping trees or shrubs that are easy to grow.
Tsuga canadensis, also known as eastern hemlock, [3] eastern hemlock-spruce, [4] or Canadian hemlock, and in the French-speaking regions of Canada as pruche du Canada, is a coniferous tree native to eastern North America. It is the state tree of Pennsylvania. [5]
20 mar 2019 · Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), also called Canada hemlock or hemlock spruce, is a slow-growing long-lived tree which unlike many conifers grows well in shade. Hemlock may take 250 to 300...
13 wrz 2024 · Tsuga canadensis, also known as eastern hemlock, eastern hemlock-spruce, or Canadian hemlock, and in the French-speaking regions of Canada as pruche du Canada, is a coniferous tree native to eastern and central Canada and the United States. It is the state tree of Pennsylvania.
Eastern hemlock is increasingly under threat from the hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae), a tiny white sucking insect that can defoliate whole stands. Habitat Anthropogenic (man-made or disturbed habitats), forest edges, forests, talus and rocky slopes, wetland margins (edges of wetlands)
Native to the eastern United States, the hemlock resembles a large Christmas tree with its broadly pyramidal, pendulous branches and fine, dark-green needles on widely spaced branches that give it a delicate, lacy feel.
A beautiful conical evergreen with drooping branches and tiny cones, the healthy eastern hemlock makes a lovely specimen tree in a home landscape. Individual trees can reach heights of 40 to 70 feet and widths of 25 to 35 feet, so dwarf cultivars are best for home landscapes.