What do you get when you treat trees like corn? A plantation, of course. And a whole lot of Monterey pine (
Pinus radiata). A tree that grows stubby and wonky in its native range, the Monterey pine grows like a poster child for logging in New Zealand, where its stick-straight form makes it the tree of choice for an unthinkably large swath of logging land. But oh, that cone...
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