Rainforest flora, Northern Chilean Patagonia.

 Coihue: Nothofagus dombeyi,

Coigüe: Nothofagus dombeyi,has simple alternate leaves with lanceolate to oval-lanceolate short shapes, smaller in general than those of Coigüe de Chiloé. In some trees the leaves acquires a leaden-silver color.

The bark is grey, relatively thin with long longitudinal fissures which form narrow plates. At the summer and some years many very small seeds in relation to the size of the tree fall to the soil.

They are the biggest broad leaved trees in the Chilean forest, reaching a height of 50 m and a diameter of 4 m or more at the breast height.

The base of tree forms spurs sometimes of a big diameter. It inhabits moderately wet environments.

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