Halocarpus kirkii

Botanical Description

Halocarpus kirkii is an evergreen tree with a rounded or tlat-topped crown; it can grow up to 25 metres tall with a trunk up to 100cm in diameter[ 2124 Title A Handbook of the World's Conifers Vol. 1 (Second revised edition) Publication Author Farjon A. Publisher Brill; Leiden, The Netherlands Year 2017 ISBN 978 90 04 32449 7 Description ]. The fine-grained wood of this tree was much harvested in the past, but logging is currently banned. The species is not recorded in cultivation, but may be present in a few botanic gardens, though the only known specimen in the northern hemisphere is at Tregrehan in Cornwall, England[ 2124 Title A Handbook of the World's Conifers Vol. 1 (Second revised edition) Publication Author Farjon A. Publisher Brill; Leiden, The Netherlands Year 2017 ISBN 978 90 04 32449 7 Description ]. Halocarpus kirkii is the only species in the genus to attain large tree size and consequently it has been subject to overexploitation, with many of the forests in which it occurred now gone. The plant is classified as 'Near Threatened' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species(2013)[ 338 Title IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Publication Author Website http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat. ].