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[TheBookworm]

This was just about the best picture I could find...sorry if it isn't as zoomed in enough

[TheBookworm]

This one might be better

[JSGandora]

Gah, I've narrowed it down to a white spruce and an engelmann spruce but I'll say white spruce because there are more needles leaning forward.

[TheBookworm]

Nope..they all looks so similar, right??

This one looks particularly similar to the engleman spruce, so good guess...

[JSGandora]

Oh, gahhhh, 99% of the needles are leaning forward, but not like the red spruce...if you know what I mean. So sitka spruce?

Also, do those scars on the twig have any significance? Or do all spruces have those?

[TheBookworm]

Yup...it's hard right...and it's even harder for me, who lives in tropical Miami...

As for the scars, I don't know about spruces, but I do think it's significant for pines...but yeah, it's best to pay attention to the twig scars pointy thingamabobbers...

Your turn!!

[JSGandora]

Aw that sucks.

Really big:

[TheBookworm]

WOAH!!! That's pretty big...umm...this looks really familiar. It's a Pacific Yew, right??

[amerikestrel]

Call me crazy, but I think it's a hemlock. Yew leaves are more tapered and have a little point at the end.

[JSGandora]

Pacific yew has that thin stalk connecting the needle to the twig which is relatively long and pretty distinct. Overall, I think, Pacific Yews are distinct. But I did say that I'm doing pines for now on and Pacific Yew isn't one.