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Cerro Alarken Nature Reserve
Ushuaia,Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina
11:24 7 February 2025

Lenga (Nothofagus pumilio)

In the treetops at Wulaia Bay, along the Murray Channel in southern Chile. Perched in a Lenga Beech, one of only 3 varieties of trees that grow in the challenging ecosystem of this region of the world.

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Jenny Pansing photos

• Ñire, Ñirre, Haya antártica
• Antarctic beech

Scientific classification:
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Tracheophytes
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Fagales
Family:Nothofagaceae
Genus:Nothofagus
Species:N. antarctica

Tierra del Fuego National Park, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

• Ñire, Ñirre, Haya antártica
• Antarctic beech

Scientific classification:
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Tracheophytes
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Fagales
Family:Nothofagaceae
Genus:Nothofagus
Species:N. antarctica

Tierra del Fuego National Park, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

• Darwin's fungus
• Pan de indio, Hongo de Darwin

Cyttaria darwinii growing as a parasite on Ñire or Antarctic Beech (Nothofagus antarctica).
The fruiting bodies, or reproductive structures, of C. darwinii are vivid orange or whitish globes, described by Darwin as “the colour of the yolk of an egg”, with varying sizes “from that of a bullet to that of a small apple”. They grow from the host beech in groups off of stems. These golf ball-like fruiting bodies have mucous-like fluid inside that dries as the balls age.

Scientific classification:
Kingdom:Fungi
Division:Ascomycota
Subdivision:Pezizomycotina
Class:Leotiomycetes
Order:Cyttariales
Family:Cyttariaceae
Genus:Cyttaria
Species: C. darwinii

Tierra del Fuego National Park, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Explored: May 17, 2022

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Lenga (southern beech) forest, Pumalin National Park, Patagonia, Region de los Lagos, Chile

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Lenga (southern beech) forest, Pumalin National Park, Patagonia, Region de los Lagos, Chile

Trekking in a lenga (beech) forest, Patagonia National Park, Aysen, Patagonia, Chile

Trekking in the forest, Cascadas trail, Pumalin National Park, Patagonia, Region de los Lagos, Chile

Morning mist at Camping Rio Gonzalez, Pumalin National Park, Patagonia, Region de los Lagos, Chile

Trekking in a lenga (beech) forest, Patagonia National Park, Aysen, Patagonia, Chile

Closeup of decidous Nothofagus pumilo leaves which is a close relative of our Nothofagus gunnii in Tasmania which we have planted close by hoping that we will get some seedling crosses between the two species.