The red so red, the white so white A special feature of Taiwan's natural environment is the great extremes of temperature and elevation found within its small area. This forces living organisms to devise countless ways to adapt to extremes of heat, cold and humidity, and because of this the island's trees often produce better quality, denser timber than the same species growing elsewhere, or contain higher concentrations of various substances.
特別是台灣，面積雖小，但在相同面積的土地上，卻同時出現高熱、高寒、高濕與海拔落差大的自然現象，因此生物也必需想盡各種方式去適應，植物往往因此長得比其他地方的同種樹材質更實在、或某些物質含量更高。