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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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