Giant rimu tree

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Giant rimu tree

***** Location: New Zealand
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Plant

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Dacrydium cupressinum, commonly known as rimu,
is a large evergreen coniferous tree endemic to the forests of New Zealand. It is a member of the southern conifer group, the podocarps. The former name "red pine" has fallen out of common use.

Rimu is a slow-growing tree, eventually attaining a height of up to 50 m, although most surviving large trees are 20 to 35 m tall. It typically appears as an emergent from mixed broadleaf temperate rainforest, although there are almost pure stands (especially on the west coast of the South Island).
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Historically, rimu and other native trees such as kauri, matai and totara were the main sources of wood for New Zealand, including furniture and house construction. However, many of New Zealand's original stands of rimu have been destroyed, and recent government policies forbid the felling of rimu in public forests, though allowing limited logging on private land. Pinus radiata has now replaced rimu in most industries, although rimu remains popular for the production of high quality wooden furniture. There is also limited recovery of stump and root wood, from trees felled many years before, for use in making bowls and other wood turned objects.
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Giant rimu
Rimutaka Forest Park - Wellington - New Zealand
these photos follow my tramp through the Rimutaka Forest Park, a steep uplifted gropup of mountains, covered in native forest, at the head of Wellington harbour, and dividing Wellington from the Wairarapa. There is a mixture of forest from fertile lowland mixed podocarp and fern forest, to southern beech forest in dryer areas, and rimu and rata along the ridges.


source : Steve Attwood



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a giant rimu falls
within an hour
rain

- Owen Bullock -
New Zealand Poetry Society Te Hunga Tito Ruri o Aotearoa


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