Rainforest flora, Northern Chilean Patagonia.

 Ulmo: Eucryphia cordifolia

Úlmo: Eucryphia cordifolia, has simple opposite leaves in an oblong shape with hearth-shapes base and seriating margin.

The leafs are disposed in opposite form, crosswise or in dense twigs.

It blooms usually between the end of January and March, the tree being covered with big flowers four petals with many white stamens.

The fruit are ovoid capsules which open in several divisions when they ripen.

Trees of big size, with a height of more than 40 m and diameter of 2 m which occupy they inhabit.

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