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{| border="1" cellspacing="0" align="right" cellpadding="2" ! align="center" bgcolor=lightgreen | Tsuga |- || |- ! align="center" bgcolor=lightgreen | Scientific classification |- | {| align="center" | align=left | Kingdom: || Plantae |- || Division: || Pinophyta |- || Class: || Pinopsida |- || Order: || Pinales |- || Family: || Pinaceae |- || Genus: || Tsuga |} |- ! align="center" bgcolor="lightgreen" | Species |- | align="left" | T. canadensis Eastern hemlock
T. caroliniana Carolina hemlock
T. chinensis Taiwan hemlock
T. diversifolia Northern Japanese hemlock
T. dumosa Himalayan hemlock
T. heterophylla Western hemlock
T. mertensiana Mountain hemlock
T. sieboldii Southern Japanese hemlock
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The genus Tsuga (Pinaceae) includes those trees called hemlock. (See hemlock for other senses of the word.) The genus includes 8 species, 4 in North America and 4 in Asia. The name Tsuga is the Japanese word for Tsuga sieboldii.
The hemlocks are important timber trees in North America.
External links
Tsuga description
Links to other Pinaceae
Pinus - Picea - Cathaya - Larix - Pseudotsuga - Abies - Cedrus - Keteleeria - Pseudolarix - Nothotsuga - Tsuga
