DOC's work Pittosporum patulum
Recovery plan
Pittosporum seeds
The Department of Conservation Pittosporum patulum Recovery Plan was approved in 1999. The plan sets in place a series of steps that will promote the recovery of P.patulum. It also outlines different management options, and a work plan.
The Long-term vision of this plan is:
'Self-sustaining populations of P.patulum to occur in the wild, throughout the natural range of the species.'
Conservation efforts
- This has mainly consisted of monitoring Pittosporum patulum populations, throughout various sites within the Nelson/Marlborough and Canterbury conservancies.
- Trees have been banded with aluminium bands and plastic pipe to protect them from possums and assess resilience.
- Plants are being cultivated at several different nurseries.
- An enclosure has been constructed on Mount Patriarch in the Richmond Ranges. This plot will variously exclude possums, deer, goats and hares in order to determine the effects each species has on the trees.