Title says it all. In fact, telling evergreens apart at all is something I’d really like a primer on, as the only ones I can identify on sight are blue spruce by their distinctive colour.
The needles. Pines have round pointy needles and yews have flat and rounded ones.
Pine tree needles are in bunches. Yew needles are attached along the branch.
BTW, the blue color is not exclusive to blue spruces. The concolor fir is blue, too. But it’s pretty easy to tell a spruce from a fir. Fir needles are flat. Spruce needles are square.
How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away.
Number one: The larch.
The larch.
Here’s one rule of thumb: If the cones point upward, it’s a fir.
Number one. The Larch.
if it makes red “berries”, it is a yew. If it makes cones, it’s not. In a cross-section of the stem, yew wood typically shows a dark core surrounded by light wood. Yew needles are arranged on opposite sides of the branch. The closest-lookin conifer is the silver fir, its needles show a similar arrangement, but show two whitish stripes on the lower side of the needle-