Rhopalostylis cheesmani_ET114
Notable Tree
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Excerpt from “The Notable Trees of New Plymouth”, 2002
Author: Cory Smith, Editor: George Fuller
Based on a review of S.W. (Bob) Burstall’s Mensuration Report # 19, 1973.
Notable Tree No ET 114
“Kermadec Nikau " p196
EXOTIC TREE: 114
SPECIES: Rhopalostylis cheesemanii, (likely to be Rhopalostylis baueri var.
cheesemanii - Jones. D,1993).
COMMON NAME(S): Kermadec Nikau
B.B CATEGORY:
Exotic Notable Tree - National Interest.
ORIGINAL READINGS
LOCATION:
Beside the Cricket Pavilion, Pukekura Park.
DATE MEASURED:
1973
HEIGHT:
37 ft (11.3 m)
CANOPY SPREAD:
DBH:
10 in (25.4 cm)
BURSTALL'S NOTES: A vigorous specimen growing in a very sheltered position.
CURRENT READINGS
UPDATED LOCATION: Behind the Cricket Pavilion, Pukekura Park.
DATE MEASURED:
31st August 2001
HEIGHT: 12.6
m
CANOPY SPREAD:
-
DBH:
21.6
cm
REMARKS:
A healthy specimen in a moist sheltered site. Hidden behind the Cricket Pavilion
(access is from the Fountain Lake).
It is unknown how Burstall obtained a larger dbh reading. The current reading was
taken on two separate occasions.
(*Medbury, 1986: R.hopalostylis baueri var. cheesemanii age unknown, likely to be
at least 50 years old. Recorded as a notable tree under R.N.Z.I.H register. Not
mentioned on Thomas Horton's 1936 listing of adjacent trees).
"Rhopalostylis cheesemani - is often regarded as being closely linked to R. baueri
from Norfolk Island and sometimes included as a variety of that species". - Palms In
Australia, David Jones, 1993.
“The most obvious distinguishing feature compared to R. sapida (nikau) is cylindrical
rather than bulbous leaf bases”. – G. Fuller.
