Tsuga | |
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Tsuga heterophylla | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Gymnospermae |
Division: | Pinophyta |
Class: | Pinopsida |
Order: | Pinales |
Family: | Pinaceae |
Subfamily: | Abietoideae |
Genus: | Tsuga (Endlicher) Carrière |
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Tsuga (/ˈsuːɡə/,[3] from Japanese 栂 (ツガ), the name of Tsuga sieboldii) is a genus of conifers in the subfamily Abietoideae of Pinaceae, the pine family. The English-language common name "hemlock" arose from a perceived similarity in the smell of its crushed foliage to that of the unrelated plant poison hemlock.[citation needed] Unlike the latter, Tsuga species are not poisonous.[4]
The genus comprises eight to ten species (depending on the authority), with four species occurring in North America and four to six in eastern Asia.[5][6][7][2][8]
WCSP
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).Tsuga is the Japanese name for Hemlock (the conifer, not the poisonous herb Conium maculatum in Apiaceae).