Botany Photo of the Day Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii

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The recent entry on Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir reminded me that we had yet to feature its iconic relative, coast Douglas-fir. What better tree to represent the taxon than Canada’s second-largest coast Douglas-fir, Big Lonely Doug? These photographs are from last weekend, when we took our second-annual year-end trip to Vancouver Island with the Horticulture Training […]

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Better treated at subspecies (or even species) rank, given the substantial differences in morphology, adaptation and ecology between the interior and coastal taxa.

 

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