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Nothofagus dombeyi
(redirected from Coihue)

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Noun1.Nothofagus dombeyi - Chilean evergreen whose leafy boughs are used for thatching
genus Nothofagus, Nothofagus - beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beech
evergreen beech, southern beech - any of various beeches of the southern hemisphere having small usually evergreen leaves


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In some areas, the woods are grouped together and referred to as Nothofagus species, with common names that include anis, coihue, coyan, roble ruili, lengue, nire and robe in addition to the names rauli, Chilean beech, South American beech, raoul, coigue and Patagonian cherry.
Located in a small village facing the coast, the church was constructed in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century from cypress and coihue (southern beech), over a foundation, like those of many area churches, laid with locally quarried stones.
With that change go the variety and splendor of Chilean hardwoods such as alerce, araucaria and coihue, which take decades, even a century, to mature.
 
 
 
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