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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Strathallen macrocarpa clone

Site	Year	Number measured/ total number planted	Growth & form	Health	Overall score
Bay of Plenty - Waiotapu	1996	9/13	6.3	7.4	6.9
Canterbury, Okuti Valley, Banks peninsula	1994 & 1995	3/5	6.4	7.8	7.1
South Otago, Balclutha	1995 & 1996	32/44	6.5	7.9	7.2

Numbers measured/planted: 44/62

Variable form. Double and multiple leaders, wobbly form, branchiness and ramicorns. Mostly good health, one tree with stem canker.