The Kauri (Agathis Australis) is a kind of conifer living in only the sub-tropical climates of New Zealand. The first of them appeared during the Jurassic period about 190/135 million years ago. They are the world's biggest trees in terms of trunk volume and have a height of up to 70 meters and a width of up to 9. Unfortunately many of their forests were felled by English colonists on arrival for ...