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Calafate

This bush from the Patagonia was known by the Aonikenk as “Kon o Koone”.

The Calafate (Berberis microphylla sin. Berberis buxifolia) is an evergreen thorny bush from the south of Argentina and Chile. Its fruit is
edible and it is considered the symbol of the Patagonia.

This bush is 1,5 m. high aprox. with many branches coming from the base of the trunk. Its fruit is a kind of blue blackish “baya” which is collected to eat it fresh, elaborate marmalade and jelly. There is a Selknam and Tehuelche saying about the calafate which says that “the one who tastes this fruit will always come back to the Patagonia.
 

Araucaria Araucana (Pehuén)

Is more than 80 years old. It is a coniferous able to grow until 50m. high , it has a cylindrical and very straight trunk of more than two mts of diameter. This tree is classified as “vulnerable” and nowadays its felling is prohibited since it has been declared “Natural Monument” in Chile from 1976 on.