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To: Honor First who wrote (180652)	7/9/2009 12:27:20 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

That would be Douglas-fir. The hyphen is important because it's not a true fir like balsam fir or grand fir. It's not a hemlock either. I love/hate taxonomists. When I first learned the scientific name for Douglas-fir it was Pseudotsuga taxifolia, which means it's a false hemlock with leaves like a yew tree. Now it's just named after this guy, Archibald Menzies. Menzies' name is commemorated in the scientific names of several of the plants he discovered, including Menziesia, a genus of shrubs in the Ericaceae, and the Douglas-fir Pseudotsuga menziesii, the most commercially important tree in western North America. en.wikipedia.org