About the plant
This is an evergreen conifer native to the mountains of central and northern Taiwan.
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Endangered
The International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species uses a set of criteria to evaluate the extinction risk of the world’s species. The ongoing mission is to evaluate every plant species in the world.
IUCN Red List Status:
Not yet evaluatedData deficientLeast concernNear threatenedVulnerableEndangeredCritically endangeredExtinct in the wildExtinct -
MaterialPlant provides materials for manufacturing either fibre or timber
Facts
- Timber valued in construction
- Slow growing species

© Aljos Farjon/RBG Kew

© Aljos Farjon/RBG Kew

By Shih-Shiuan Kao via flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

© Tony Kirkham/RBG Kew
Uses
The valuable wood of this tree is in demand for construction purposes, mainly at a local or regional level.
Pressures of lumber harvesting and forest clearance have greatly reduced wild populations to just eight isolated locations in an area of less than 500km².
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Endangered
The International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species uses a set of criteria to evaluate the extinction risk of the world’s species. The ongoing mission is to evaluate every plant species in the world.
IUCN Red List Status:
Not yet evaluatedData deficientLeast concernNear threatenedVulnerableEndangeredCritically endangeredExtinct in the wildExtinct -
MaterialPlant provides materials for manufacturing either fibre or timber