Luma apiculata Edmund Cuthbert an entirely Asian group of

an entirely Asian group of evergreen oaks distinguished from every American oak by the concentric rings on the acorn cup

Botanists have since moved them into Lamiaceae

exceptionally hardy shade tree for parks and large lawns

Not immune to the chestnut blight that decimated the American chestnut in the early twentieth century

'Madame Galen' is less rampant than the wild American species

Luma apiculata Edmund Cuthbert an entirely Asian group ofLuma apiculata, the Chilean myrtle, is grown above all for the extraordinary bark: smooth, sinuous trunks in warm cinnamon orange that peel to reveal cream beneath, a living sculpture that glows in low winter light. An evergreen of the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, the plant hails from the temperate rainforests of Chile and neighboring Argentina, where whole groves, most famously the Bosque de Arrayanes on Lake Nahuel Huapi, are built of these twisting,