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Ulmo, Roble de Chiloé

Eucryphia cordifolia

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Description

It is native to Chile and Argentina. It lives along the Andes Mountains. This elegant tree with a thick trunk is threatened to lose its habitat due to logging. It is mainly used as beekeeping flora, but it is widely used as an ornamental tree. Its wood is used for construction, and very widely as firewood.

State of conservation

No MMA information

Division

Magnoliophyta

Order

Oxalidals

Family

Cunoniaceae.

Foliar regimen

Perennial

Growth

Maximum height size 25 meters.

Medium growth rate.

Blooming time

Late January and March.

Flower color

Ivory white.

Sun exposure

To full sun, without any protection. flat parts or slopes with northern exposure. some shade.

Temperature

Resists occasional, not prolonged frosts down to about -5°c.

Hydric regimen

Areas with constant rainfall, short dry periods are possible but do not last more than 1 month.

Type of soil

Humid soils.

Uses

Melifera, wood, ornamental and medicinal.

Distribution

From the province of Concepción (Biobio region) to the provinces of Chiloé and Palena (Los Lagos region), coastal mountain range, inland valleys, up to 700 m.a.s.l.

Habitat and association

Aextoxicon punctatum, nothofagus dombeyi, drimys winteri, weinmannia trichosperma, laureliopsis philippiana and lapageria rosea.

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