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  1. Phyllocladus toatoa

  2. 3/07/2017 1:58:50 p.m. Peter
    (Non-member from Auckland)

    Hi I just read through all the dense undergrowth of botanical information on this tree but I can't find a description of the adult tree shape, either as a specimen, or as part of a group. Can you pls tell me that?cheers regards Peter

  3. 4/07/2017 3:16:18 p.m. Graeme Ure

    From this websites page for P. toatoa
    http://www.nzpcn.org.nz/flora_details.aspx?ID=1116

    "Features

    Small trees up to 15-25 m tall. Young or exposed plants conical in outline, shaded or enclosed plants with bushy, somewhat rounded, heavy crowns. Stems one or more, erect or leaning, strongly tapered, up to 900 mm diameter, with regular coppice and epicormic shoots. Branches distinctly whorled, robust, suberect, horizontal, or downturned with upturned ends, leaving prominent rounded to elliptic branch scars when shed, and characteristic raised ridges encircling the stems...."

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