Towards commercialising cypress as a high-value plantation forest species

Report Date: March 2017
Author: Dean Satchell, Sustainable Forest Solutions, R.D. 1 Kerikeri, Northland 0294
+64 21 2357554


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C. macrocarpa clone, Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula

Site Year Number measured/
total number planted
Growth & form Health Overall
score
Bay of Plenty - Kaingaroa 1997 6/10 4.9 5.7 5.3
Wairarapa, Tinui 1994 & 1995 9/15 5.9 6.9 6.4

Numbers measured/planted: 15/25

Variable form, double and multiple leaders, wonky stem, ramicorns branchiness and heavy branching. Fluting common with stem canker recorded, along with foliar canker.