The Mount Cook Totara is a splendid form of the much loved native. With a wonderful tight and conical habit, its great for either formal plantings or hedging.

Broadly conical or spreading when open grown, evergreen. Huge trunks on old trees. Bark peels in long strips. Tiny fruits attract birds. Timber is prized for carving & interior joinery.

Taller, stronger stock for sheltered sites with vigorous weed growth. This stock undamaged by -10C in our Wakefield nursery. On new land mix with larch, Douglas fir or cypress to inoculate with mycorrhiza. Valuable timber when pruned. Cut stumps re-sprout.

Narrowly conical evergreen. Prefers deep soil in sheltered sites, will grow to upper slopes mixed with Douglas fir. Doing well on P. radiata cutover. Use one year seedlings only on sites with minimal frost, good weed control essential.