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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Kaitangata clone (Strathallen)

Site	Year	Number measured/ total number planted	Growth & form	Health	Overall score
Bay of Plenty - Waiotapu	1996	11/13	4.8	6.2	5.5
Gisborne, Wharerata	1995 & 1996	4/6	5.8	7.7	6.7
Hawkes Bay, Taradale	1995	19/20	6.0	7.0	6.5
Wairarapa, Tinui	1994 & 1995	25/25	5.7	7.2	6.5
Taranaki, Korito road	1995	6/6	2.7	4.3	3.5
Canterbury, Okuti Valley, Banks peninsula	1994 & 1995	21/30	5.1	5.4	5.2
South Canterbury, Waimate	1998	26/40	5.8	7.1	6.5
Canterbury High Country	1996	15/22	4.5	7.4	5.9
South Otago, Balclutha	1995 & 1996	23/56	6.3	7.8	7.1

Numbers measured/planted: 150/218

Form issues include double and multiple leaders, dead tops, wobbly and wonky stems, ramicoprns, branchiness, heavy branches. Lots of fluting and some stem canker with some foliar canker.