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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LMS

Longwood macrocarpa seedlings

Site	Year	Number measured/ total number planted	Growth & form	Health	Overall score
Northland - Topuni	1996	2/15	6.8	7.9	7.3
Hawkes Bay, Taradale	1995	14/19	4.8	5.4	5.1

Numbers measured/planted: 16/34

Subject to double and multiple leaders, branchy and with ramicorns. Stem cankers recorded on half the measured trees, with many trees either dead or dying.