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
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CP

Site Year Number measured/
total number planted
Growth & form Health Overall
score
Northland - Topuni 1996 0/16 - - -
Bay of Plenty - Kaingaroa 1997 5/10 5.7 6.4 6.0

Numbers measured/planted: 5/26

Poor growth, reasonable form, some canker and fluting. Two dead, fifteen gone in Northland. One dead standing in Kaingaroa, on dying and four gone.