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Summary Radiata pine (Pinus radiata) was originally known as Pinus insignis or ‘remarkable pine’, an apt name for a tree which has had such a dramatic impact on the world timber scene. It is a native conifer of California, USA, and was first introduced into Australia around 1857 for ornamental plantings. There were two major sources of original importation, one through Ferdinand von Mueller to Victoria and South Australia in the 1860s, and the second through New Zealand seed merchants. Forty-year-old trees were clearfelled for sawing in 1908 in Victoria. The fast early growth of radiata pine in Mount Gambier and north of Adelaide in the 1870s and 80s prompted the state forest services of South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales to advocate planting of the remarkable pine as an exotic conifer to compensate for the relative paucity of indigenous softwood in Australia. There was some plantation development in the 1920s and 1930s, but planting almost stopped during World War II. Large-scale planting of r... |
