to Forestry Commission homepage Home > Quick links > Library > Help >
to Forest Research homepage About us > Contact us > News > Research >Products/services >Events >  

Forest Research home > Research themes > Tree improvement & forest genetics > Selection and testing of conifers

Selection and testing of conifers - Plus-trees selected
 

Species

Total plus treesSub-divisionNo. of plus trees

Scots pine

1065

Indigenous populations

214

Unknown origin

851

Corsican pine

1015

 

Lodgepole pine

3980

North coastal BC

954

Q. Charlotte Is. BC

486

South coastal USA

614

Skeena River BC

912

Central interior BC

450

Southern inter. BC

397

Minor areas

167

Other pines

43

Macedonian pine

23

Hybrids

20

Sitka spruce

3398

General (QCI type)

1926

Southern (Washington type)

326

Northern

449

Population study

150

For clonal testing

547

Other spruces

545

Norway spruce

89

White spruce

282

Omorika spruce

75

Engelmann spruce

39

Hybrids

27

Miscellaneous

33

Larch

884

European larch

527

Japanese larch

328

Hybrid larch

29

Douglas fir

922

Selected in GB

596

Selected in NW America

326

Silver firs

207

Grand fir

92

Noble fir

97

Pacific silver fir

13

Miscellaneous

5

Other conifers

127

Western hemlock

38

Red cedar

69

T. standishii

20

Ash

72

 

Oak

347

Sessile oak

40

Pedunculate oak

40

Sessile and pedunculate not distinguished

173

Red oak

94

Beech

130

 

Birch

108

 

Total

12843

 
            


to DirectGov