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Tree Information x

Identifier: TR/0109
Historical Reg No: 083j
Tree Type: Single
Registered By: Fuller, G.
Registration Category: Notable tree/s – Local interest
General Notes:


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This remaining tree stands in a more southwesterly relationship to the former larger Mediterranean Cypress that stood near the road'.
''The existence of these two specimens of obvious great age on this property, lends credence to the belief that Ratanui was the site of John Nairn's nursery prior to his departure from New Plymouth in about 1857. It is recorded that he supplied the two specimens still growing in St. Mary's churchyard over the grave of the Reverend Bollard. The two trees at Ratanui are larger than the St. Mary's pair and there is a row of comparable size on the opposite side of Carrington Road. On the other hand, there are several large specimens growing in Pukekura Park where they are not likely to have been planted before 1876. ( This is by no means certain). A count of the annual rings on a fallen specimen from Ratanui in the late 1970's revealed only about 120 rings, though it must be recorded that the sample was decayed and the rings very irregular and compressed. These two remaining specimens may never be capable of solving the mystery because some years ago grazing horses almost denuded them of bark, minimising the possibility of accurate estimation of age, when they ultimately die. So the mystery of the whereabouts of John Nairns nursery the first in New Plymouth, persists, but does not lessen the attraction of these two dissimilar specimens growing free standing and offering shade to grazing stock. They are located in a north-east, south-west orientation in a paddock adjoining Atkinson road'. Fuller 1983.

Single Tree Details

Genus: Cupressus
Species: sempervirens
Common names: Mediterranean cypress, Italian cypress
Height: 15.50m
Height measurement method: Laser Atlanta Advantage
Height Comments: (none)
Girth: 240 cm
Girth measurement height: 1.4 m
Girth Comments: (none)
Diameter: 76.4 cm
Crown Spread A: 10.90m
Crown Spread B: 10.90m
Avg. Crown Spread: 10.90m
Actual Planting Date: actual date not specified
Approx. Planting Date:
e.g. circa. 1860
Current Age: not known years
Tree Health Description: (none)
Tree Form Type: Single Trunk
Number of Trunks: 1
Tree Form Comments: The trunk has been damaged by horses
Champion Tree Score: 154
Local Protection Status: Unknown
Tree Present: Yes
STEM Score: 0

Observations

Date Observer Action
27 Mar 2002 Smith, C.T.
01 Jan 1983 Fuller G

Location

Lat/Long: -39.10187342349831 / 174.08625921146677
Location Name:
Address: 7 Atkinson Road
Suburb:
City/Town: New Plymouth
Region: Taranaki
Location Description: beside the drive on the left
Public Accessibility: Private-Garden
Local Authority: New Plymouth District Council

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