Genus Tsuga (Noun)
Meaning
Hemlock; hemlock fir; hemlock spruce.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Tsuga, commonly referred to as hemlock or hemlock spruce, is a small genus of trees found primarily in the Pacific coast and northeast North America, as well as northeast Asia and southeast Asia.
- In some botany classes, genus Tsuga is presented alongside a general classification for true spruce as two types of "falses", as hemlock is a stronger wood than fir and fir is not more durable then it.
- It has long been established that the genus Tsuga is a crucial part of the forests in this region, where hemlock often forms co-dominant stands.
- Only recently have researchers investigated why the single North American species of genus Tsuga doesn't come close to equaling the relative productivity of its associated Japanese genus Tsuga counterparts, however.
- Specialists who tend to prefer classification of woods do categorize a Japanese species of the genus called Tsuga Yofrui, or Japanese hemlock, alongside the genus in which Japanese fir is represented.