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Larch

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Larch

Unlike most other plantation species, larch trees are deciduous. Larch timber is noted for its strength.

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Michael Roche, Exotic forestry – Forestry in the 1800s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16527/larch (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Michael Roche, published 1 March 2009.