Luma apiculata Edmund Cuthbert 'Madame Galen' is less rampant

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

hummingbird flowers

A member of the witch-hazel family

Of all the silverbells

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

Luma apiculata Edmund Cuthbert 'Madame Galen' is less rampantLuma 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,