Luma apiculata Edmund Cuthbert Of all the silverbells

Of all the silverbells

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

Those Hyrcanian woods are living museums

the same Garden the gardenia is named for

hummingbird flowers

Luma apiculata Edmund Cuthbert Of all the silverbellsLuma 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,