Luma Apiculata - Cultivation and Uses

Cultivation and Uses

Its fruit is appreciated in Chile and Argentina and its flowers are important for honey production. The Chilean Myrtle has medicinal uses for the Mapuche people. It is also kept as bonsai and cultivated in gardens for the contrast of the glossy foliage and slender red stems. It has become naturalised in parts of Ireland and western Great Britain and it has been planted in Spain.

• Chilean myrtle trunk in forest

• Flowers on a branch

• Arrayán in Los Arrayanes National Park.