{"id":"id-004","license":"CC-BY-4.0","data":{"title":"Douglas-fir is neither: the cone with tongues","file":"/diagrams/id-004-douglas-fir-cone-with-tongues.svg","caption":"FA Exhibit ID-004. Douglas-fir is neither: the cone with tongues.","alt":"A public-domain coast Douglas-fir specimen and enlarged cone show the conspicuous three-pointed trident bracts protruding between cone scales. Taxonomy labels Pseudotsuga as distinct from true firs in Abies and spruces in Picea.","kind":"diagram","rights":"cc-by-4.0","depicts":"Coast Douglas-fir belongs to Pseudotsuga, not the true-fir genus Abies or spruce genus Picea","identifiableAddress":false,"exifGpsStripped":true,"derivation":"Morphology from USFS FEIS PSEMENM and USFS Silvics of North America. Specimen after Sudworth 1908, fig. 36, public domain.","technicalReviewer":"Grayson Graham","lastVerified":"2026-08-25T00:00:00.000Z","sourceUrl":"https://research.fs.usda.gov/feis/species-reviews/psemenm"}}