raw timber; logs; pulpwood
Refers to felled trees in their natural state, before processing into lumber or pulp. Common in forestry and wood industry contexts.
In this region, they export the timber as raw logs.
Raw timber was delivered to the paper mill.
original tree cultivar; ancestor tree
Specialized horticultural term for the original individual tree from which a cultivar was propagated. Not a common everyday word.
The original tree of this cultivar is said to be at a temple in Kyoto.
Compound of 原 (げん, 'original, raw') and 木 (ぼく, 'tree, wood'). The reading ぼく for 木 is the kan'on reading, common in formal compounds.