Imported Siberian Larch comes from the Lake Baykal region of Siberia. It has a consistent creamy yellow brown colour and is slow grown with a tight straight grain. Siberian Larch has a live tight intergrown knot formation and it contains a natural fungicide called arabinoglactan. When exposed to rain and sunlight, Siberian Larch will go an attractive silver grey colour. It is a tough timber, dense and resinous and very stable in use when dry. In the UK it is the hardest commercially available softwood species making is suitable for other applications such as decking as well as timber cladding.