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Agathis

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Agathis

Genus of coniferous trees in the family Araucariaceae, native to the Philippines and Australasia. The trees are grown for their timber. They have broad, spirally arranged, lance-shaped, leathery leaves and produce hard, orangey resins used in lacquers and varnishes. Species include the Ambon pitch tree A. dammara, the kauri pine A. australis, and the Fijian kauri pine A. vitiensis.


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One of these parasites was the Agathis wasp, which reduced the damage by casebearers so successfully that only low numbers of the pest still exist in the once heavily infested stands of eastern larch.
 
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