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Level of Significance

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  • State
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Age

?yrs

Trees

1

Diameter

0.7m

Height - 23m

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Details

Common name
Lawson's Cypress
Botanical name
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Fletcheri'
Type
Specimen
Condition
Poor
Municipality
Hepburn (VIC)
Location
Wombat Park, Midland Highway, Daylesford VIC 3460
Access
Unrestricted
Significances
  • Horicultural/Genetic (Scientific)
  • Rare (Scientific)
  • Outstanding size (Scientific)
  • Outstanding species (Scientific)
  • Landscape (Social)
  • Unusual (Aesthetic)
Date of measurement
25 Jun 2006
Date of classification
03 Oct 2007

Statement of Significance

This multi-stemmed form of this tree, planted circa 1871,is most unusual and spectacular. It has 38 stems at breast height. The Wombat Park garden is of horticultural and historic significance itself and contains some of the oldest cultivated trees in the district.<BR>The garden was first planted in the early 1850s and continuously developed throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. <BR>Both the house and the garden are classified of State Significance