Plantae > Tracheophyta > Pinopsida > Pinales > Pinaceae > Tsuga > Tsuga chinensisTsuga chinensis (Chinese hemlock)Synonyms: Abies dumosa var. chinensis Language: Chi; Chinese; Fre; Ger; Hrv, Srp; Hun; Ita; Rus Tsuga chinensis, commonly referred to as the Taiwan or Chinese hemlock, or in Chinese as tieshan (simplified Chinese: 铁杉; traditional Chinese: 鐵杉; pinyin: tiěshān; literally: "iron fir"), is a coniferous tree species native to China, Taiwan, Tibet and Vietnam. The tree is quite variable and has many recognised varieties, though some are also maintained to be separate species by certain authorities. The tree was recently discovered in the mountains of northern Vietnam, making that the southernmost extension of its range. |
| Edible [1] | May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details. | | Flower Type [1] | Monoecious | | Leaf Type [1] | Evergreen | | Pollinators [1] | Wind | | Specific Gravity [2] | 0.453 | | Structure [1] | Tree | | Usage [1] | Apart from the report about the use of the wood, all the other uses listed below are based on the uses that T. canadensis is put to and a note in [46] that this species has similar uses.
Yields a resin similar to Abies balsamea, it is gathered by incisions in the trunk or by boiling the wood;
The bark contains 8 - 14% tannin; The inner bark is used according to one report;
A brown dye is obtained from the bark;
A pitch (called hemlock pitch), is obtained by distillation of the young branches;
Tolerant of light trimming, plants can be grown as a hedge; This species does not make a good hedge in Britain;
Wood - soft, durable. Used for shingles; The timber is used for construction, aircraft, furniture, and in mines; |  | | Height [1] | 148 feet (45 m) |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 2Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366.
Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository. ♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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