Chinese rosin is obtained mainly from the turpentine of Masson's Pine Pinus massoniana and Slash Pine P. elliottii.

Chinese Red Pine was the most important species planted and many of these old pines are now approaching senility and suffer from nematode attack.

The Plantation Forest was established in the French colonial period with Pinus massoniana (Horsetail Pine).

It has a wide variety of trees such as pinus massoniana, metasequoia glyptostroboides, bamboo, and several fruit trees.

Chinese rosin is obtained mainly from the turpentine of this Pine (Pinus massoniana) and Slash Pine (P. elliottii).

For example, the Pinewood Nematode from North America and Pine-needle Scale Insect from Taiwan, which together virtually eliminated the native Pinus massoniana in the 1970s and 80s.

The coastal plains and lower elevations are covered by evergreen laurel-Castanopsis forests, dominated by Cryptocarya chinensis and Castanopsis hystrix, with scattered stands of the subtropical pine Pinus massoniana.