This tree was collected at my mother’s property in North Waikato when I first arrived back into New Zealand in March 2020. It was a dead straight stick about 5ft tall, that I only looked twice at because it had nice bark. This told me the tree was significantly older than it’s size would let on. The tree was growing in the decaying stump of one of it’s uncles, so had somewhat naturally contained it’s own root system, leading to the natural ‘dwarfing’. This is the original genetic line of Pinus radiata not commonly seen in New Zealand anymore, as they have been mostly replaced with select forestry varieties.