Tamarack has a narrow trunk that is covered with thin, gray bark on younger trees and red-brown, scaly bark on older trees. The tree reaches heights of 50 to 75 feet, is conical-shaped, and has a ...

Tamarack is a smaller tree, seldom exceeding 75 feet in height, while western larch can exceed 180 feet. Tamarack trees may live for 200 years, while western larch can often exceed 400 years of age.

Tamarack is a tree with a number of aliases – hackmatack, Eastern larch, or if you’re from northern Maine and feeling contrary, juniper. Whatever you call it, this scraggly tree, easy to ...

Like the tamarack, western larch is a deciduous conifer whose needles turn yellow and drop in autumn. Unlike tamarack, western larch is very tall, being the largest of all the larches and reaching ...

Tamarack or larch trees like moist soils and will grow rapidly to their mature height of 40 to 75 feet. They will grow, but more slowly, in swampy, wet conditions.

There are several sources I look to for information about our North American trees. “A Countryman’s Woods,” by Hal Borland is a favorite and here is how he describes the tamarack tree. “The tamarack, ...