Canada Hemlock

Growth habit

Shrub

Perennation

Perennial

Location

Cornell Class of 1938 Native Maple Slope

Source of plant

John Vermeulen & Son Inc.

Description

Conical Group. This was a selection made by the late Ralph M. Warner, Milford, CT. It normally makes a rather open bush with growth in rather strong, flat sprays, and with branchlets very close together and foliage very dense. The leaves are oval, broad and very densely set, forming a spray that is almost solid leaf. Leaves are shiny dark green with two narrow bands of stomata on the underside. A plant in the Gotelli collection at the U.S. National Arboretum, Washington, D.C. (Acc.#20836) is on record as having been purchased by Mr. Gotelli from Warner in 1957. It is now an upright plant of conical outline, 6 1/2' tall and 5' wide, with horizontal branches with upturned tips and short, stiff branchlets. The needles are very dark green. The author observed several other plants in the same collection. Most were pyramidal, very compact; one in particular was flat-topped and irregular. Plants under this name vary considerably in habit. The explanation might be that Ralph Warner sent out two clones, which in small sizes in his nursery were indistinguishable, or it might be that the mutation that gave rise to the cultivar was not quite stable, and that, in result, the selection of propagating material influences the resulting plant.

Special characteristics

hardiness, winter interest, dwarf conifer