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Douglas Fir

 
Douglas Fir plantation, Blackdown, Dorset
 
 
Low, spreading branches at the forest edge 
 
 
Branches with hanging female cones
 
 
Male cones
 
 
Close-up of male cone - cream scales
 
 
Male and female cones
 
 
 
Close-up of side view of young female cone
 
 
Close-up - looking into young female cone
 
 
Older female cone
 
 
Last year's cones. 3-pronged bracts longer
 
than the cone scales
 
 
Cone scale with winged seeds and bract scale
 
 
Twigs and leaves
 
 
Leaf insertion onto twig. Under-surface of
 
leaves have 2 pale stripes
 
 
Grey, fissured bark