Pseudotsuga menziesii ( Douglas Fir )
The touch tree of the Pacific Northwest , this broadly conical tree diagram when young , becomes columnar and spreading with age . When young , bark is smooth and gray , then thick , corked , profoundly ridged , reddish - brown . Sharp reddish - browned buds open to linear dark - fleeceable leaf , loosely asunder on shoots . Bearing ovoid to conical female cones , to 4 in long ....