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See: Douglas fir
Quotations
1877
This British Columbia wood is known in Australia, New Zealand, and Great Britain as "Oregon Pine" though Oregon does not export it to these markets.
1932
The Great Douglas fir is a "spruce" which is named "false hemlock" by the scientists, who give it a Greek prefix "pseudo", meaning false, followed by a Japanese term, "Tsuga", meaning hemlock. This is to describe a "spruce" or "fir" which the lumbermen persist in calling "Oregon Pine"!
1958
Among [the Douglas Fir's] early aliases in the common-name category were Oregon Pine . . . Yellow Fir, and even Spruce Fir.