This tree grows up to a height of 20 meters. It has a pyramidal growth with a straight trunck and thin branches. Its bark is ash-grey with dark spots. The new buds are covered by small dense hairs of a reddish color. The leaves are continously green, composits, inparipinnated, with serrated edge, coriaceous, of reticulated and brilliant veins.
It has small flowers, arranged in axillary racemes, meeting in pairs; the peduncles are found covered by dense reddish hairs. Flowers during January and February, and the fruit is a drupaceous globose nut of 1.5 to 2 cm in diameter. The shell is woody with colors that vary from green to black, passing through red, maroon, and violet tones. The seed is very rich in nutritients and is edible.
The Hazel wood has a grain that is beautiful, solid, thin, and elastic. It is used in carpentry and cabinet-making, and also for constructing boats,  to make oars, musical instruments, and veneers.

Family: Protáceas

Distribution: Grows from Valparaíso, by the coast, to the Guaitecas islands.