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]