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

GBL

Gwava's lusitanica-1 (Gwava's lusitanica seedlings?)

Site	Year	Number measured/ total number planted	Growth & form	Health	Overall score
Bay of Plenty - Waiotapu	1996	7/13	5.1	6.5	5.8
Gisborne, Wharerata	1995 & 1996	2/8	6.0	7.3	6.6

Numbers measured/planted: 14/41

Form issues include multiple and double leaders, ramicorns, branchiness and heavy branching. Some good trees but variable. Nine trees dead standing or dead rotting.