Cultivar 2191: Canadian Hemlock

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Usage Facet: class=edible; edible_score=1.0; ornamental_score=0.0; inferred_from_taxon=no

Relationships: 0 | Linked Entities (visible): 0 | Evidence claims: 6 | History events: 0 | Catalog issue offerings: 0

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Daniels Nursery lists Canadian Hemlock under “The Hemlocks” as an ornamental evergreen, not a fruit cultivar. The catalog calls it “the hardiest of our Hemlocks” and recommends it for shaded sites where many evergreens fail. [S1]

Daniels describes it as upright and graceful. In this source, its main value is landscape use, especially for a difficult northeast shaded corner. [S1]

The source does not give a botanical species name, parentage, breeder, release history, fruit description, or edible use. Its hardiness is relative to the nursery’s other hemlocks. The entry says it was the hardiest hemlock they sold, but also says it needed winter protection in exposed places. [S1]

For Pomologica, this record should be treated as an ornamental nursery listing with limited relevance to edible fruit documentation unless later sources connect it to fruiting or ethnobotanical use. [S1]

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This summary currently draws chiefly from Daniels planting guide, 1950.

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106Daniels planting guide, 1950unknown600p15Should have winter protection in exposed places.; Presented as the answer to the problem of what to plant in a difficult northeast shaded corner.; Upright in form and graceful in habit.; Does especially well in shaded lo

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106p15recommendation_contextShould have winter protection in exposed places.CANADIAN HEMLOCK—The hardiest of our Hemlocks.page_block:0.90
106p15recommendation_contextPresented as the answer to the problem of what to plant in a difficult northeast shaded corner.CANADIAN HEMLOCK—The hardiest of our Hemlocks.page_block:0.90
106p15growth_habitUpright in form and graceful in habit.CANADIAN HEMLOCK—The hardiest of our Hemlocks.page_block:0.90
106p15recommendation_contextDoes especially well in shaded locations unsuited to most evergreens.CANADIAN HEMLOCK—The hardiest of our Hemlocks.page_block:0.90
106p15entry_hardiness_observationDescribed as the hardiest of their hemlocks.CANADIAN HEMLOCK—The hardiest of our Hemlocks.page_block:0.90
106p15taxon_contextListed under The Hemlocks.CANADIAN HEMLOCK—The hardiest of our Hemlocks.page_block:0.90

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recommendation_contextShould have winter protection in exposed places.0.97
recommendation_contextPresented as the answer to the problem of what to plant in a difficult northeast shaded corner.0.93
growth_habitUpright in form and graceful in habit.0.96
recommendation_contextDoes especially well in shaded locations unsuited to most evergreens.0.98
entry_hardiness_observationDescribed as the hardiest of their hemlocks.0.98
taxon_contextListed under The Hemlocks.0.99

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