mountain hemlock

Tsuga mertensiana

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Tsuga mertensiana, known as mountain hemlock, is a species of hemlock native to the west coast of North America, with its northwestern limit on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and its southeastern limit in northern Tulare County, California. Mertensiana refers to Karl Heinrich Mertens (1796–1830), a German botanist who collected the first specimens as a member of a Russian expedition in 1826-1829.

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  1. (c) Scott Cox, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/35917634@N05/4627187070
  2. (c) Wikipedia, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuga_mertensiana

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