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Nothofagus brassii is a large highland tree from New Guinea, valued for its dark timber and used in local traditional medicine. It is a forest tree rather than a garden or houseplant, and it is not commonly grown.
Nothofagus brassii is a species of tree in the family Nothofagaceae. It is endemic to New Guinea. It is commonly known in Indonesia as Sagé, sagé hitam (Dani, Wamena, Highland Papua), sahé (Yali, Highland Papua), and Digi (Mee, Central Papua).
Nothofagus brassii is found in the highlands of New Guinea. It grows in montane forest, seldom below 1000 meters elevation. Nothofagus forest is generally found above a lower montane belt of oak relatives Castanopsis and Lithocarpus (family Fagaceae). The transition between the fagaceous forests and Nothofagus forests is often abrupt, and less often the forest types intergrade or intersperse.
The tree is used for timber. It has dark brown to blackish brown outer wood and brown inner wood. It is known by the Indonesian vernacular name sagé hitam, with sagé as the common name of the tree and hitam meaning black. It is used by local people for houses and fences, and logged commercially. Since the 2000s it has been the target of massive illegal logging in parts of its range, including in Lorentz National Park.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nothofagus brassii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
