After several years of waiting, several specimens of the Cypress located in the northern area of ​​ Tantauco Park have begun the process of seedling, that is, dumping their seeds to generate new plants.

This is a long awaited process, since last season seeds were the 2008-2009 season, where we were able to rescue a lot of the tiny seeds and that today they gave rise to many plants of the nursery of Chaiguata.

“In Tantauco we have been studying this species for more than eight years and trying to determine the reasons for the variability of the seed fall, among other issues related to this important native species,” said Alan Bannister, manager of Chiloé Park Tantauco.

The Cypress is the southernmost conifer in the world and the main species of research in the Park. It is a slow-growing tree that can reach 20 m in height, narrow crown and straight trunk up to 1 m in diameter, although the average is located mainly between 15 and 18 m in height and a diameter of between 30 and 50 cm.

The bark is rough, reddish brown, peeled in grayish sheets and has longitudinal cracks. The Cypress has the habit of inhabiting poorly drained, marshy and high humidity soils.

In the Tantauco Park inhabits this emblematic species, although this one has been affected by recurrent intentional fires that affected large areas of the Park in the decade of the 40s.