Ginkgos are tall Chinese trees. Silver fir resin is used to make turpentine. Larches are the only deciduous conifers. Sitka spruce provides good wood for paper. Cedar of Lebanon gives a hard, scented wood.
Western hemlock is grown for box wood.
Douglas firs can grow to over 75m tall. Austrian pines are often used as windbreaks. Corsican pine Pines are the largest family of conifers. They all grow fast and are full grown in less than 20 years - which is why they provide 75 per cent of the world's timber. Typically, they have needle-like leaves.