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@geopsych replied to your photoset “A patch of Taxus canadensis. An untrained eye would see them as young…”

I didn’t know there is a native species and have always assumed every one I see was an escape!

geopsych replied to your photoset “A patch of Taxus canadensis. An untrained eye would see them as young…”

A fair-sized yew shrub in Black Rock woods just died last year and I thought, oh well, probably planted here a long time ago when an adjacent part of the woods was a picnic grove. I never even considered it might be a species native to that wood.

It’s definitely a genus you wouldn’t expect to be native to North America I have to agree. I’d give tips on how to tell it apart from the non-native european yews but sadly I don’t really know their calling card if they were both in a garden beyond possibly their growth form.

It would seem however that it’s a very wide-spanned (7ft according to one source) sprawler that rarely exceeds 4ft in height (one online source says they can reach 6ft but tbh I’ve hardly even seen wild ones in my area reach 2-3ft in height). European Yews (save for cultivars) tend to go more tree-like?? At least I think….

@geopsych replied to your photoset “BABIES! There were so many sapling Canadian Hemlocks! This isn’t even…”

Wonderful to see. So much woolly adelgid here.

Whereas for me I have never even seen Wooly Adelgid (though haven’t seen enough Canadian Hemlock to really give REASON to be seeing Wooly Adelgid to begin with). When talking to a professor back at Cuddy Gardens he said that native in-situ Canadian Hemlock here is pretty uncommon, as historically in Ontario it was one of the trees commonly taken/effected by lumberwork.