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Title: The principal timber trees readily eligible for Victorian industrial culture, with indications of their native countries - and some of their technologic uses. An enumeration

Author: Freiherr von Ferdinand Mueller

In: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6

Publication details: Victoria University of Wellington Library, Wellington

Part of: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout

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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6

Cupressus obtusa, F. von Muell. (Retinospora obtusa, S. & Z.)

Cupressus obtusa, F. von Muell. (Retinospora obtusa, S. & Z.)

Japan. Attains a height of 80 feet; stem 5 feet in circumference. It forms a great part of the forests at Nipon. The wood is white-veined and compact, assuming, when planed, a silky lustre. It is used in Japan for temples. There are varieties of this species with foliage of a golden and of a silvery-white hue.

Two other Japanese cypresses deserve introduction, namely: Cupr. breviramea (Chamcæcyparis breviramea, Maxim.), and Cupr. pendens, (Chamæcyparis pendula, Maxim.)