Rhopalostylis cheesmani_ET114

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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.


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Rhopalostylis cheesmani_ET114


Location:

Bellringer Pavilion

Search plant species GIS:Rhopalostylis baueri
Plant information:S.W.Burstall notable tree and Bird food plant
Scientific name:

Rhopalostylis baueri

Common name:

Kermandec Nikau

Wildlife:Bird
Creator or author:Cory Smith