{"id":1203,"date":"2013-09-12T16:10:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T23:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/?page_id=1203"},"modified":"2025-03-20T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:34:52","slug":"douglas-fir","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/douglas-fir\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas-fir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/PSME1_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1205 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/PSME1_lg-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Douglas-fir\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/PSME1_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/PSME1_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/PSME2_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1204 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/PSME2_lg-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Douglas-fir\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/PSME2_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/PSME2_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>An evergreen, the Douglas-fir is a native of the West from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast and from British Columbia to Mexico. It is Oregon&#8217;s state tree. It was named after explorer-botanist David Douglas, who found the species in Oregon. The shape, especially when young, is pyramidal. Douglas-fir is not a true fir but a separate genus. Native Americans boiled the bark into a dye, used its pitch on sores, and made tea from pitch to use as a cold remedy. It is a valuable timber tree, which grows over 300 feet and lives up to 2,000 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An evergreen, the Douglas-fir is a native of the West from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast and from British Columbia to Mexico. It is Oregon&#8217;s state tree. It was named after explorer-botanist David Douglas, who found the species&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/douglas-fir\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Douglas-fir<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1205,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"trees_template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1203","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1203\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}