Douglas Fir ?

[TheAardvark]

I have 3 large evergreen trees that I don't feel comfortable being by the house anymore and they are being removed this year. I believe they are Doug Fir. My softwood ID skills are not as good as my hardwoods. I think these are Doug Firs. Everyone agree or am I wrong? If they are Dougs I will keep them as firewood. If they are really something else I will have the tree guys take them since I have access to hardwoods.

 

[AmbDrvr253]

There are no native Doug Fir in PA. Unless they were planted by someone as shade/decorative trees.

 

[Lake Girl]

The cones do look like doug fir but... only native in the northwest
http://www.tlehcs.com/special topics/evergreen id/douglas fir.htm

 

[TheAardvark]

There are no native Doug Fir in PA. Unless they were planted by someone as shade/decorative trees.

They were definately planted in the yard...in a perfectly straight line.

 

[CincyBurner]

It's Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii). Nothing else has those distinctive cone bracts.
Occasionally planted as a landscape tree in east, but never attains its impressive growth as in its native range.
Also commonly grown as Christmas tree.

 

[iamlucky13]

but never attains its impressive growth as in its native range.

Give them 200+ years. I suspect they'd make a good attempt at it in areas that don't have too extreme summer/winter differences. They're not even considered fully mature until about 100 years.

In fact, the tallest tree in England is a Douglas Fir that's about 160 years old, and over 200 feet tall.

Just a fun little aside, the trunk volume on the largest known Douglas fir is 12,300 cubic feet. Think about that for a second - almost 100 cords solid volume in a single tree.


(and of course, California's giant sequoias get even bigger)

* Edit - Posted the wrong youtube link. Fixed.