slender North American beauty Tsuga canadensis belongs to the pine family and is an evergreen coniferous tree.It is home to the main distribution area and considered the eastern regions of North America and Asia.As an ornamental plant hemlock is grown around the world.The tree is very hardy, able to withstand heavy frosts.Rusty prefers to slightly acidic soils.It has a conical crown and reaches 30 meters in height.It grows very slowly, for a long time, while living up to a thousand years, reaching maximum productivity to 200-300 years.
little history
name tree formed immediately.The first name hemlock received by Carl Linnaeus in 1763 - Pinus canadensis.The fact that even though it belongs to the family of pine trees, but is very similar to silver fir.And for a long time botanists could not determine what the same family, it really is.Later we noticed that the plant is a transitional link between the families.As a result, the Japanese name was selected as it grows in Japan several kinds of wood.The first to use the modern name Tsuga canadensis, was a scholar Elie Abel-Carrière in 1855.
Appearance
its wide conical crown of thin branches of the weeping tree has a graceful appearance.The high level barrel nearly two-thirds of its length devoid of branches.An adult tree trunk diameter can be up to 120 centimeters, to the top, he gradually narrowed.Young bark is reddish or dark brown, it darkens with age and is added to greyish hue.The old tree bark flakes gradually exfoliate.The very bark becomes rough, with deep grooves and the thickness can be up to 2 centimeters.The needles are small, flattened, dark green on top and lighter underneath.Cones Tsuga canadensis is small and beautiful hanging.
at the service of man
In North America, a tree found very wide application.It is used in large volumes in the timber industry in Canada and the United States, many pulp and paper mills in these countries use its wood as a raw material for the production of paper and paperboard.Tsuga canadensis is also used in medicine and for the production of cosmetics.The board of the tree sheathe sauna, and tannin is extracted from the bark is used in the leather industry as a tanning agent and natural dyes for the subsequent staining of the skin.
Tsuga canadensis Nana
This slow growing shrub in the landscape design in Europe is used since the XIX century.At a height of about 1 meter in its crown it grows up to 2 meters in diameter.It grows slowly, annual increment - only 4 centimeters.It feels good in the sun and in the shade, tolerates frost well.It used in the parterre lawn, heather gardens and rocky areas parklands.
Serbian Spruce
This is one of the fastest-growing spruce.Narrow krona and delicate upturned branches give the tree a pretty sight that enhances two-color needles.Beautiful blue-green furniture is complemented by elegant violet-brown cones.Good looks either alone or in combination with other decorative rocks firs.
