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Key to Conifers
Cunninghamia - China Fir
Trees; needle leaves flat and linear, about 5 mm wide
and 3-7 cm long (in C. lanceolata), ending in a sharp point;
seed cones pendulous, often with a diminutive proliferative shoot
at the apex.
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Cunninghamia lanceolata 'glauca' - Blue China
Fir
(photographed at Brookside Gardens, Wheaton Regional
Park, Maryland)
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Cunninghamia lanceolata - China Fir - Branch
tip with winter buds.
(Photographed at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond,
VA)
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