After the native coastal forests had been cleared, the immigrants brought Japanese black pine--with its sharply defined, dense shape and resistance to wind and salt--from mainland China and Japan. Planted as windbreak trees, these became second only to beefwood trees (Casuarina spp.) as defenders of Taiwan's coasts.
原來台灣平地松樹，都是隨移民腳步而來，異域思鄉，在海岸原生林被開墾後，移民由大陸和日本引進線條剛硬、樹形堅實、抗風耐鹽的黑松做為防風林，成為台灣次於木麻黃的海防線。