What does planted forest mean?
Planted forest is broader than plantation forest. It captures establishment method and expected growing-stock composition without automatically implying intensive plantation management.
planted forest
Forest predominantly composed of trees established through planting or deliberate seeding, expected to exceed 50 % of growing stock at maturity.
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Source context
EUDR Article 2 defines planted forest by planting and/or deliberate seeding, with planted or seeded trees expected to constitute more than 50 % of the growing stock at maturity; it includes coppice from originally planted or seeded trees.
Official definitions by source
EUDR
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation-free products
forest predominantly composed of trees established through planting and/or deliberate seeding, provided that the planted or seeded trees are expected to constitute more than 50 % of the growing stock at maturity; it includes coppice from trees that were originally planted or seeded;
Reference: Article 2, point 10
Definition status
Public draft page. Preserve EUDR land-use, forest-type, actor-location, and market-trigger boundaries.
Practical application
Implementation records should capture establishment method, planted/seeded share, maturity expectation, coppice status, plot evidence, and whether the forest also meets plantation-forest criteria.
Minespider commentary
Planted forest is an establishment-method field. It keeps forest-origin evidence structured before teams decide whether more specific categories such as plantation forest apply.
Common confusions
- Assuming all planted forests are plantation forests. Plantation forest has additional intensive-management criteria.
- Ignoring the more than 50 % growing-stock-at-maturity threshold.
- Treating planted forest as agricultural plantation; EUDR keeps those categories separate.