coniferous

Since softwood trees bear cones, they are called coniferous trees.

Why they should prefer coniferous trees, unless to utilize the needles for a nest, is not understood.

Araucaria, a genus of trees of the coniferous or pine order, indigenous to Australasia and South America.

The frogs were found beneath logs and rocks in a damp canyon in coniferous forest.

It seems to prefer rather open coniferous forests in which there is a more or less continuous cover of grasses on the ground.