Douglas-fir

Douglas-fir - Pseudotsuga menziesii (Pinaceae)
An evergreen conifer native to the coastal regions of western North America, from west-central British Columbia, south to central California. There is considered to be a coastal and an interior variety in B.C. Douglas-fir is not a true fir (true firs are in the genus Abies) thus the common name is hyphenated. Douglas-fir is distinguished by its thick, furrowed, fire-resistant bark, needles arranged all around the stem, pointed buds and three-pronged bract emerging from between the scales in the mature cone. Coastal Douglas-fir is a very large tree, some say the second tallest in the world after Coast Redwood. It commonly lives more than 500 years and occasionally more than 1,000 years.