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Level of Significance

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Age

?yrs

Trees

1

Diameter

1m

Height - 29m

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Details

Common name
Sugar Pine
Botanical name
Pinus lambertiana
Type
Specimen
Condition
Poor
Municipality
Mansfield (VIC)
Location
Matlock Cemetery, Woods Point Road, Matlock VIC 3723
Access
Unrestricted
Significances
  • Horicultural/Genetic (Scientific)
  • Outstanding size (Scientific)
  • Outstanding species (Scientific)
  • Location/Context (Social)
  • Contemporary association (Social)
  • Park/Garden/Town (Historic)
  • Attractive (Aesthetic)
  • Species/Location (Aesthetic)
Date of measurement
02 May 2003
Date of classification
21 Jun 2006

Statement of Significance

The Sugar Pine in the Matlock Cemetery is the only known tree of the species in Victoria, and is rarely grown in Australia. The only other known plantings are at Pilot Hill Arboretum and Jounama plantation in New South Wales.The origin of the Sugar Pine at the Cemetery is unknown but would have been planted in the nineteenth century, possibly around 1880. <BR>Matlock was developed from 1862 following the discovery of gold.The small cemetery reserve has burials dating from 1864<BR>The Sugar Pine (Pinus lambertiana) is a large upright conifer, 5 needled pine and produces long cones, (the longest of all pines, which may grow to 30-46cm) and resinous cone scales. The Sugar Pine and a nearby Corsican Pine (Pinus nigra var. corsicana) are the only exotic trees in the Cemetery and have survived the bush fires, but not totally unscathed. Both trees have fire scars on the south east side of their trunks.