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Chiloé Beech
Nothofagus nitida
Nothofagus nitida (Coigüe de Chiloé; Chiloé's Coigue in Spanish ) is an evergreen tree, native from Chile and Argentina, it lives from latitude 40° S to Última Esperanza (53° S).
From the article Nothofagus nitida on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Up to 35 m (115 ft) height and 2 m (6.5 ft) diameter. The bark is gray. It prefers very wet soils. Leaves are alternate between 1.5 and 3 cm, they are hard, glossy green, with a small petiole and lanceolate shape. The new borne twigs have little hairs. Male flowers have a unique verticil with 6–10 stamens and are surrounded by tepals (sepals and petals just the same). Female flowers are grouped five by five, and pollination is mainly anemophilous. The flowers are homochlamyd, small (3 to 5 mm), unisexual, arranged in inflorescences. Its fruits are small, flattened or triangular, yellowish in cupules made up by 2 to 7 units.
At the table
The wood is white-yellowish colored. It has beautiful engraving and it is used in furniture and construction.
Wikipedia: “Uses”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Nothofagus nitida in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 429215.