Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Mystery Tree B

For this tree, I could not get a needle closeup.
(The needles were WAY too high up.)
But this silhouette view determines that there are no 'packages.'
So, either a fir or a spruce, right?

The distinctive bark again is the real giveaway:


Here's a look at more of these trees,
growing everywhere in the eastern Sierra Nevadas:


Identified it yet?
Of course,
it is a CALIFORNIA RED FIR.

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