Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by origin]
6. biological material
7. plant material
8. [wood and wood by product]
9. wood (plant material)
10. [wood by composition or origin]
11. softwood

Narrower term/s

• European larch (wood)
• Japanese larch (wood)
• Siberian larch (wood)
• western larch (wood)

Anotations

Scope note:

Wood of the genus Larix, native to cool and sub-Arctic parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Most larch timber is coarse-grained, hard, and heavy, and is used for the construction of telephone poles, mine timbers, and railroad ties.