| Botanical Name: | Nothofagus dombeyi Blume. (Fam. Fagaceae) |
| Trade Names: | Coigue - Chile |
| Substitution: | In dependence on color and density for European Birch, Black Alder, European Cherry, European Beech and North American Red Gum (Liquidambar). |
| Indigenous to: | temperate South America (southern Chile and Argentina) |
| Characteristics: | The sapwood and the heartwood are not clearly divided. The sapwood is a little lighter than the heartwood, which varies from pallid reddish brown to red- or yellow brown. The annual rings emerge as dark brown stripes. In structure, texture and general consistence is Coigue very irregular. The wood shrinks very little and is weather resistant. |
