with needles that are …
___ flat, flexible or
| stiff and sharp, ◼︎♦ 4-sided[?], 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 out from their stem …
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,shed separately, arranged ╟ alternatehemlock genus Tsuga or
needle undersurface=not whitish,needles shorter toward end of twig,shed together with twig (look at base of tree),arranged ╟ alternate[?]bald cypress Taxodium distichum needle undersurface=not whitish,needles shorter toward end of twig,shed together with twig (look at base of tree),arranged ╫ opposite[?]dawn redwood Metasequoia glyptostroboides
🏠︎ 🌲︎ conifer order Pinales
fir genus Abies hemlock genus Tsuga
Douglas fir Pseudotsuga menziesii