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Nothofagus obliqua (roble beech)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Lophozonia obliqua, (Patagonian oak, roble or roble beech) (usually found in North America)) is a deciduous tree from Chile and Argentina. It grows from 33 to 43° south latitude. The northern extent of this tree's range in Chile is considered to be the Vizcachas Mountains and La Campana National Park. L. obliqua was known as Nothofagus obliqua prior to 2013.
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Infraspecies

Nothofagus obliqua var. glauca
Nothofagus obliqua var. macranthera
Nothofagus obliqua var. valdiviana

Attributes

Air Quality Improvement [1]  None
Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-High
Carbon Capture [1]  High
Shade Percentage [1]  80 %
Temperature Reduction [1]  High
Wind Reduction [1]  Medium-High
Flower Type [2]  Monoecious
Janka Hardness [3]  990 lbf (449 kgf) Soft
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Pollinators [2]  Wind
Specific Gravity [4]  0.56
Structure [2]  Tree
Usage [2]  A fast growing tree, it can be used as a hedge or windbreak; Another report suggests that it is not a good wind resister; Wood - heavy, hard, durable, very good quality. Used for furniture, ship-building, interior joinery. A very good fuel;
Height [2]  66 feet (20 m)
Width [2]  49 feet (15 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 8 Low Temperature: 10 F° (-12.2 C°) → 20 F° (-6.7 C°)
Hardiness Zone Maximum [1]  USDA Zone: 10 Low Temperature: 30 F° (-1.1 C°) → 40 F° (4.4 C°)
Water Use [1]  Moderate to Low
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes 5491 England, United Kingdom
Lanín National Park II 536819 Neuquen, Argentina
Nahuel Huapi National Park II 759703 Argentina  
Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau 360832 Wales, United Kingdom
Sefton Coast 11278 England, United Kingdom

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Desmaria mutabilis[8]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

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♦ 1i-Tree Species v. 4.0, developed by the USDA Forest Service's Northern Research Station and SUNY-ESF using the Horticopia, Inc. plant database.
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Wood Janka Hardness Scale/Chart J W Morlan's Unique Wood Gifts
♦ 4Jérôme Chave, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Timothy R. Baker, Tomás A. Easdale, Hans ter Steege, Campbell O. Webb, 2006. Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2,456 neotropical tree species. Ecological Applications 16(6), 2356 - 2367
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 7Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0