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Western Hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)

Sombrio Beach, Juan de Fuca Provincial Park, southwestern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

This ancient tree is very much alive and thriving, though the massive "nurse" log on which it grew is long ago decomposed. The diameter of the base of the tree is approximately fifteen feet wide. The space inside is about nine feet high.

 

www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/library/documents/treebook/westernh...

 

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Uploaded on August 13, 2016
Taken on August 7, 2013