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Encyclopedia Britannica



KAURI PINS

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 700 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JUN-KHA
KAURI PINS , in botany, Agathis australis, a conifer native of New Zealand where it is abundant in forests in the North
Island
  between the North Cape and 38
south
 
latitude
 . The forests are rapidly disappearing owing to use as timber and to destruction by fires. It is a tall resirtlferous tree, usually ranging from 8o to Too ft. in height, with a trunk 4 to 10 ft. in
diameter
 , but reaching 150 ft., with a
diameter
  of 15 to 22 ft.; it has a straight columnar trunk and a rounded bushy head. The thick resiniferous bark falls off in large flat flakes. The leaves, which persist for several years, are very thick and leathery; on
young
  trees they are lance-shaped 2 to 4 in.
long
  and a to z in. broad, becoming on mature trees linear-oblong or obovate-oblong and a to 11 in.
long
 . The ripe cones are almost spherical, erect, and 2 to 3 in. in diameter; the broad, flat, rather thin
cone
 -scales fall from the
axis
  when ripe. Each scale bears a single compressed seed with a membranous wing. The timber is remarkable for its strength, durability and the ease with which it is worked. The resin, kauri- gum, is an amber-like deposit dug in large quantities from the sites of previous forests, in lumps generally varying in size from that of a hen's egg to that of a man's head. The colour is of a rich brown or amber yellow, or it may be almost colourless and translucent. It is of value for varMshmaking.


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