with needles that are …
___ flat, flexible or
◼︎♦ 4-sided[?], | stiff and sharp, and twig=rough where needles fall offspruce genus Picea or
◯ round with axial groves, segmented, tips have projections, looks like horse hair🇦🇺 Australian pine or beach she-oak Casuarina equisetifolia :
and splay …
left + right + up + down + all angles or
left + right a little more than up + down + all anglesfir genus Abies or
left + right (pretty much exclusively) :
branchlets droop; buds=∧ pointed red-brownDouglas fir Pseudotsuga menziesii
needle undersurface=whitish,needle lengths differ from each other along stem, alternate, shed separatelyhemlock genus Tsuga or
needle undersurface=not whitish,needles shorter toward end of twig, opposite, shed together on their twig (look at base of tree)bald cypress Taxodium distichum
🏠︎ 🌲︎ conifer order Pinales
fir genus Abies hemlock genus Tsuga Douglas fir Pseudotsuga menziesii