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Radiata pine at Mt Peel Station

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Radiata pine at Mt Peel Station

The oldest radiata pine in New Zealand is at Mt Peel Station, South Canterbury. This tree bears a plaque recording that it germinated from a seed in Sydney in 1856 and was planted at Mt Peel in 1859.

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Peter Berg, Radiata pine – Plantations in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16831/radiata-pine-at-mt-peel-station (accessed 6 June 2026).

Story by Peter Berg, published 1 March 2009.