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  1. 1st September 2016, 01:52 PM #1
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    I see this tree around Melbourne often on the edges of railway tracks and as wind breaks on farms and I was wondering what it is called? The trunks are often often very twisted and knotty.


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  3. 1st September 2016, 02:05 PM #2
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    looks like cypress Macrocarpa
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    Quote Originally Posted by shedbound View Post
    looks like cypress Macrocarpa
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    +1 Cypress

    A lot are dying from a bug (moth?) and being chopped down before the fall down. Nice to turn and has beautiful grain, oily but can be very brittle
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    Everywhere I look around Gippsland the stands of cypress are dead from the Kanker(spelling) that came through a few years back. Agreed nice timber for working although grain can change direction every 6 inches, gets some nice compression grain under the big branches.
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    The moth that is attacking the cuypress is probably cypress bark weevel. The fruiting bodies of bracket fungi can take up to 7 years to become visible and it is usually these which we see when a tree is starting to decline.
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