Our Maungatapere nursery in 1996,
growing 250,000 manuka plants for a coastal reveg job. In the
background at the top of the picture is an old shed made by GI's during
World War Two, from local native timber. The wood used is puriri, Vitex
lucens, which is related to teak, one of the world's top timbers. Puriri trees
produce extremely durable timber that does not need treating, and grow
very quickly into huge trees. The shed is still standing
despite tropical cyclones in recent years. We would like to be growing
250,000 puriri for forestry: all it takes is for someone to have as much
faith in puriri as the person who contracted us to grow the manuka above had
in manuka. Instead people keep planting soft pine...don't
they know about puriri yet?
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