They are now growing Douglas Spruce in Iceland!!!

[AHPP]

FTR, I don't shop at Iceland.

 

I laughed.

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Douglas-fir and Douglas spruce are synonymous. So I don't really understand the joke....am I missing something?

Douglas spruce is a perfectly acceptable common name for Pseudotsuga menziesii . The problem with common names is that they don't always make it clear what species they are talking about unlike latin names.

But "Pseudotsuga menziesii smoked ham" would probably perplex most shoppers!

[farmer rod]

The smoke from burning fur is quite unpleasant, and the idea of mentioning fur in an advert is unhelpful, rabbits have it and it has to be removed before you can freeze them.

 

Why not call it spruce :lol: after all Aldi seem to think that they can call their Salmon "wild" , which it probably is if you poke it with a stick, but it was still born raised and killed in captivity

[peatff]

Douglas-fir and Douglas spruce are synonymous. So I don't really understand the joke....am I missing something?

 

But "Pseudotsuga menziesii smoked ham" would probably perplex most shoppers!

 

I asked this last year and posted a perfectly rational link. I certainly wouldn't stop shopping at Iceland because they call a tree by a different name to the one I use. I am well into their Greggs pasties at the moment though

 

P.S. if you put Pseudotsuga menziesii on the label I'd probably think it was drugs

[Bob Morris]

Also known as "Rat's arse" fir.

 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Pseudotsuga_menziesii_cone.jpg/170px-Pseudotsuga_menziesii_cone.jpg