Are there coniferous trees in the tropical rainforest?

I refer you to this source: http://www.rainforestconcern.org..., which states that Araucaria lives in in temperate rainforests of Chile and Argentina. Various authors refer to Chilean rainforests with Araucaria as being of tropical environment. An additional coniferous tree in tropical rainforest is Podocarpus which occurs in E. read more

An additional coniferous tree in tropical rainforest is Podocarpus which occurs in E. Australia. I refer you to the book, “Structure and Function of Mountain Ecosystems in Japan (2016), edited by Gaku Kudo, which speaks to this question on page 102, describing conifers in existence as well in Taiwan and New Zealand in warm temperate rainforests. read more

Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests are a tropical forest biome. They are located in regions of humid climate at tropical and subtropical latitudes. Most tropical and subtropical coniferous forest ecoregions are found in the Nearctic and Neotropic ecozones, from the Mid-Atlantic states to Nicaragua and on the Greater Antilles, Bahamas, and Bermuda. read more