Pseudotsuga macrocarpa

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Pseudotsuga macrocarpa
Bigcone Douglas-fir at Mount San Antonio
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Gymnospermae
Division:	Pinophyta
Class:	Pinopsida
Order:	Pinales
Family:	Pinaceae
Genus:	Pseudotsuga
Species:	P. macrocarpa
Binomial name
Pseudotsuga macrocarpa (Vasey) Mayr[2]
Natural range
Synonyms
Tsuga macrocarpa (Vasey) Lemmon Pseudotsuga menziesii subsp. macrocarpa (Vasey) E. Murray Pseudotsuga douglasii var. macrocarpa (Vasey) Engelm. Pseudotsuga californica Flous Abies macrocarpa Vasey Abies douglasii var. macrocarpa (Vasey) Vasey

Pseudotsuga macrocarpa, commonly called the bigcone spruce or bigcone Douglas-fir, is an evergreen conifer native to the mountains of southern California. It is notable for having the largest (by far) cones in the genus Pseudotsuga, hence the name.

The tree occurs from the San Rafael Mountains in central Santa Barbara County and the Tehachapi Mountains of southwestern Kern County, south through the Transverse Ranges, to the Cuyamaca Mountains in San Diego County. The tree is shade-tolerant and prefers to grow on slopes.