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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Hocking Hybrid seedlings

Site	Year	Number measured/ total number planted	Growth & form	Health	Overall score
Northland - Topuni	1996	6/11	7.7	9.1	8.4
Gisborne, Wharerata	1995 & 1996	1/5	6.0	6.5	6.3
Taranaki, Korito road	1995	1/6	5.3	6.5	5.9
Canterbury, Okuti Valley, Banks peninsula	1994 & 1995	2/3	7.9	8.3	8.1
Hawkes Bay, Taradale	1995	14/19	5.5	6.1	5.8
South Otago, Balclutha	1995 & 1996	13/20	6.7	8.1	7.4

Numbers measured/planted: 31/53

Some trees with canker, occasionally serious. Form can be branchy, with heavy branches and sometimes wobbly/wonky stem. Much better in some sites than others