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Tsuga mertensiana is a large evergreen conifer growing up to 20 to 40 meters (66 to 131 feet) tall, with exceptional specimens as tall as 59 m (194 ft) tall. They have a trunk diameter of up to 2 m (6 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft).
Prickly-ash, Toothache-tree: Limited to a few counties in the Piedmont and upper Coastal Plain: Least Concern: Rutaceae: Zanthoxylum clava-herculis L. [1]: 164–165 Hercules'-club, Toothache-tree: Restricted to coastal counties and Southwest Georgia. Least Concern: Anacardiaceae: Cotinus obovatus Raf. [1]: 166–167 Smoketree
It is a large evergreen tree, attaining in favourable places a height of 21–28 metres (69–92 feet), and developing in open situations a huge head of densely leafy branches as much across, the terminal portions of the branches often pendulous in old trees. The tallest recorded, a tree planted at Windsor Great Park, is 30.4 m tall. [7]
Tsuga (/ ˈ s uː ɡ ə /, [3] from Japanese 栂 (ツガ), the name of Tsuga sieboldii) is a genus of conifers in the subfamily Abietoideae of Pinaceae, the pine family.The English-language common name "hemlock" arose from a perceived similarity in the smell of its crushed foliage to that of the unrelated plant hemlock. [4]
The species often grows on coarse woody debris such as nurse logs and cut stumps. T. heterophylla is an integral component of Pacific Northwest forests west of the Coast Ranges, where it is a climax species. It is also an important timber tree throughout the region, along with many of its large coniferous associates. [9]
A 'hedgerow management' scale has been devised by an organisation called Hedgelink UK [21] [22] ranging from 1 to 10. '1' describes the action to take for a heavily over trimmed hedge, '5' is a healthy dense hedgerow more than 2 metres in height, and '10' is a hedge that has not been managed at all and has become a line of trees.