Tsuga sieboldii

Southern Japanese hemlock
Drawing from 1870 Flora Japonica, Sectio Prima
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Gymnospermae
Division:	Pinophyta
Class:	Pinopsida
Order:	Pinales
Family:	Pinaceae
Genus:	Tsuga
Species:	T. sieboldii
Binomial name
Tsuga sieboldii Carrière
Synonyms
Abies tsuga Siebold et Zucc. Pinus tsuga (Sieb. et Zucc.) Antoine Tsuga tsuja (Sieb. et Zucc.) A.Murray bis Pinus sieboldii (Carr.) W.R. McNab Pinus araragi Siebold; Tsuga araragi (Siebold) Koehne

Tsuga sieboldii, also called the southern Japanese hemlock, or in Japanese, simply tsuga (栂), is a conifer native to the Japanese islands of Honshū, Kyūshū, Shikoku and Yakushima. In Europe and North America the tree is sometimes used as an ornamental and has been in cultivation since 1861.