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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SMC

Strathallen macrocarpa clone

Site	Year	Number measured/ total number planted	Growth & form	Health	Overall score
Bay of Plenty - Waiotapu	1996	11/13	5.3	6.5	5.9
Canterbury High Country	1996	26/50	5.3	7.5	6.4

Numbers measured/planted: 37/63

Form issues include double and multiple leaders, ramicorns and heavy branching and wobbly stem. Some fluting and canker. Four trees dead or dying.