Hermitage Douglas-fir explained

Hermitage Douglas-fir
Map:Scotland
Map Size:240
Species:Douglas-fir
Binomial:Pseudotsuga menziesii
Height:201.1feet
Coordinates:56.559°N -3.621°W
Seeded:c. 1750

The Hermitage Douglas-fir (also known as Ossian's Douglas-fir) was a Douglas-fir tree which stood in The Hermitage pleasure ground, in Dunkeld, Scotland, between and 2017.

It was the second tree (after a grand fir in Argyll) in Britain to reach 200feet in height, in 1980.[1] It eventually reached a height of in 2009 before it was blown over due to high winds in the early hours of 13 January 2017.[2] It was a self-sown tree, growing from seed blown from one of three older trees at the Hermitage, and was found by increment boring to have germinated around 1887.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Mitchell, Alan F. . Mitchell . Alan . Alan Mitchell's Trees of Britain . Whitman Publishing & Distribution Company . 1996 . 0-00-219972-6 .
  2. Web site: Common Douglas-fir 'Hermitage Douglas-fir' at The Hermitage, Dunkeld, Scotland, United Kingdom . Monumental trees . 2017-01-12 . 2024-11-08.