Nothofagus antarctica

Antarctic beech is in the southern beech or Nothofagaceae family and is native to South America from southern Chile and Argentina to Tierra del Fuego. It has been transplanted to along the northern west coast of United States and Canada, and to Great Britain. It grows up to 25 m tall.

The species grows on Hoste Island in the most southern area of Chile, giving it the distinction of being known as the southernmost tree on earth.

• Leaves are simple and alternate, waxy, small, 2–4.5 cm long; leaf shape is ovate, crinkly, rounded at the tips and with small irregular teeth. The tree drops its leaves in the fall.
• The trunk typically has multiple stems; branchlets and sub-branchlets of branches are arranged distinctly in one plane, somewhat resembling elms in the winter appearance of twigs.
• Flowers are inconspicuous, with no petals but with 10–20 small reddish-yellow anthers forming clusters.