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Unidentified Tree
ohmygosh
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Dear all,
I wonder if anyone can help identify this tree in our garden. It looks like some kind of fir but we are not sure which.
Also, it doesn't appear to be very well as last summer its needles were far more green and uniform.
Any assistance would be very welcome.
Thanks
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The long thin needles identify it as one of the 5 needle pines a.k.a white pines. The one most commonly found in Britain is Pinus wallichiana, the Bhutan Pine. Something as drastic looking as that might be due to root problems, drought or water logging. If on checking your soil that is not the problem then it is most likely a disease. I am not sure what specific diseases they suffer from but there are quite a lot of fungal diseases around that that attack conifers..