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According to the BC Ministry of Forestry's Tree Book, early Canadian settlers named it after a poisonous European weed because it had a similar colour when the needles were crushed; what tree is it?



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Answer: the hemlock

Source: The Tree Book (BC Ministry of Forestry)

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