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Hermitage Douglas-fir

The Hermitage Douglas-fir (also known as Ossian's Douglas-fir) was a Douglas-fir tree which stood in The Hermitage pleasure ground, in Dunkeld, Scotland, between and 2017.

It was the second tree (after a grand fir in Argyll) in Britain to reach in height, in 1980. It eventually reached a height of in 2009 before it was blown over due to high winds in the early hours of 13 January 2017. It was a self-sown tree, growing from seed blown from one of three older trees at the Hermitage, and was found by increment boring to have germinated around 1887.

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