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the conifer that quits cold, dropping its needles like a tree that read the room
means A North American larch (Larix laricina), a deciduous conifer of cold northern bogs and forests that turns golden and sheds its needles each autumn.
from From an Algonquian language — likely Abenaki, where words like 'akemantak' described the tree, valued for its strong roots used to sew birchbark canoes. English speakers reshaped the borrowed word into 'tamarack' by the early 19th century.
- deciduous conifer
- sheds needles every fall, unlike most evergreens
- fall gold
- turns brilliant yellow before going bare
- bog dweller
- thrives in cold northern swamps others avoid
- tough wood
- rot-resistant timber prized for boats and posts
- name roots
- Algonquian word meaning wood for snowshoes