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| Leaves |
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about 2.5 cm. long |
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slender, flexible leaves in clusters of 10 to 20
arranged spirals |
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light green in color, turning yellow and shedding in
autumn |
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| Cones |
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cm. long erect and brown colored with about 20
thin smooth scales |
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maturing and opening during autumn, shedding the
second season |
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| Bark |
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a thin, smooth bluish-grey on young trees becoming rough
with small, flat, reddish-brown scales when mature |
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| General |
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a heavy, strong softwood |
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tamarack makes good railway ties, posts an poles, but
due to attacks by the larch sawfly, its commercial importance has decreased |
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found mostly in swampy, wet places, it often grows with
Black Spruce and Balsam Fir and can grow up to 12 m. with a 30 cm.
diameter |
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it is characterized by the deciduous nature of
its needles |
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in parts of Newfoundland, particularly the Avalon Peninsula,
Tamarack, more commonly called Juniper or Eastern Larch, leans to the east due
to the prevailing westerly winds |
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