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An individual instance of Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock)
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Permanent unique identifier for this particular organism:

http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt/6-139


Notes:


This tree is located in the southwest corner of Library Lawn. It is on the south side of the sidewalk that leads from the Math building entrance to the Central Library.

Eastern hemlock has short, flat needles that are arranged more or less in two rows along the twig.  The lower surface of the needles have two white rows of stomata.  Hemlock cones are small and woody.  Both sexes of cones are found on the same tree.

Hemlocks do not occur naturally in middle Tennessee.  But they are an important component of the forests of east Tennessee and can be the dominant species in valleys in the Smoky Mountains.  The hemlock wooly adelgid, an insect pest, has recently invaded the Appalachian Mountains and threatens this majestic tree species with destruction.

This rather sad, leaning tree is all that was left after its main trunk fell over in about 2012.


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This organism is a living specimen that is part of the  Vanderbilt University Arboretum  with the local identifier 2-978.


This particular organism is believed to have managed means of establishment.

This organismal entity has the scope: multicellular organism.


Identifications:


Tsuga canadensis

(L.) Carrière

sec. fna.org 1993

common name: eastern hemlock
family: Pinaceae
Identified 2002-04-05 by Steven J. Baskauf


Location:


Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, US
Click on these geocoordinates to load a map showing the location: 36.14556°, -86.80094°
Coordinate uncertainty about: 10 m.

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Occurrences were recorded for this particular organism on the following dates:
2002-04-05
2018-05-03

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whole tree - general
cone - female - mature open

fna.org 1993 =

Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds., 1993. Flora of North America North of Mexico. Flora of North America Association, New York, NY, US and Oxford, UK.


Metadata last modified: 2019-10-16T22:24:42.018-05:00
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