Lamina 4 to 12 x 2,5 to 5 cm, pinnate veins, pilose and very notorious, mostly below the leaf, new borne green shoots pubescent with brown felt-like hairs.

Fruit made up by a cupule of 4 narrow valves, in its interior 2 to 3 little yellowish nuts 6 mm long, a little hairy, being the two lower triangular, tri-winged, and the flat internal, bi-winged.

It has been introduced as ornamental in Great Britain and it grows well in western Scotland, where it gets the necessary rainfall for good growth, a minimum of 750 mm (30 in) a year.

[4] Seedlots of N. alpina and Nothofagus obliqua of different provenance in their native range were tested in cultivation at the Bush estate in Scotland.

[7] At Nautesund in Norway,[8] where the extreme minimum annual temperature is –14 °C, a south-facing exposure, good rainfall, and shelter from polar winds allow specimens of rauli to grow.