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Cryptocarya alba, the peumo or Chilean acorn, is an evergreen tree [1] that grows in Chile and Argentina from 33 to 40° southern latitude. It can live both in wet and as in dry conditions. It can live both in wet and as in dry conditions.
Cryptocarya is a genus of about 360 species [1] of flowering plants in the laurel family, Lauraceae. Most species are trees, occasionally shrubs, distributed through the Neotropical , Afrotropical , Indomalayan , and Australasian realms .
Cryptocarya alba (Molina) Looser; Cryptocarya albifrons Kosterm. Cryptocarya alleniana C.T.White; Cryptocarya alseodaphnifolia Kosterm. Cryptocarya alticola Kosterm. Cryptocarya ambrensis van der Werff; Cryptocarya ampla Merr. Cryptocarya amygdalina Nees; Cryptocarya anamalayana Gamble; Cryptocarya andamanica Hook.f. Cryptocarya angica Kaneh ...
The evergreens largely predominate here as well as in the extreme south, and on the open, sunburnt plains the vegetation takes on a sub-tropical aspect. One of the most characteristic trees of this zone is the peumo (Cryptocarya alba), whose dense evergreen foliage is everywhere conspicuous
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Evergreen trees and shrubs (Beilschmiedia miersii, Cryptocarya alba, and Peumus boldus, Lithraea caustica, and Quillaja saponaria); deciduous trees and shrubs (Nothofagus macrocarpa, N. obliqua, N. glauca, N. alessandrii); thorn bushes and related members of the Rosaceae (Kageneckia angustifolia); and mountain cypress (Austrocedrus chilensis)
The broadleaf deciduous tree Nothofagus obliqua is predominant, along with sclerophyllous evergreen trees characteristic of the forests of Mediterranean-climate Chile such as Cryptocarya alba, Lithraea caustica, and Persea lingue, and laurel-leaved evergreen trees characteristic of the humid Valdivian forests like Gevuina avellana, Aextoxicon ...
In northern coastal habitats it is often associated with Aextoxicon punctatum, Beilschmiedia miersii, Cryptocarya alba, and Schinus latifolia. In Los Bellotos del Melado National Reserve in the Andes it grows with Beilschmiedia berteroana, Cryptocarya alba, Nothofagus glauca, and Quillaja saponaria.