| Scientific Name: | Nothofagus antarctica |
| Common Name: | southern beech |
| Family Name: | Nothofagaceae |
| Origin: | South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 10 - 15m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Pyramidal - widely |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Specimen plant, Winter interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Heavily veined, Glabrous, Lustrous, Ovate, Crenate, Serrate, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, Yellow, Red, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Nut, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Broadly conical, often multi-stemmed, branching open irregular and angular; leaves alternate, oblong, most blades 2-4cm long x 1-2cm wide, triangular, crinkly, margins irregularly and minutely rounded-toothed, petioles 2-3mm long. Winter ID: twigs downy, zig-zagged, reddish- to dark-brown with white lenticels; buds appressed, 1-2mm long, glaucous. | |