Luma apiculata Edmund Cuthbert Botanists have since moved them

Botanists have since moved them into Lamiaceae

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

Of all the silverbells

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

exceptionally hardy shade tree for parks and large lawns

Luma apiculata Edmund Cuthbert Botanists have since moved themLuma 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,