coniferous timber

Agathis dammara is a coniferous timber tree native to the Moluccas and the Philippines.

The timber was initially not so highly regarded by European settlers as it was less attractive, strong, or resilient to rot than the other coniferous timbers available such as totara.

So poorly known were the timbers in West Africa, that at the beginning of the century the houses and offices for British colonial civil servants were built from imported coniferous timber.