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Beech Tree Pictures Gallery contains many pictures of different varieties list of different types of beech trees, useful information and facts about the beech tree. The beech tree loses its leaves in the fall and is therefore classified as a deciduous tree.

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Beeches: American Beech Tree Type
American Beech Trees	American Beech Leaf
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Beech Tree Scientific Name, Fagus

Beech trees lose their leaves in the fall and can therefore be classified as deciduous trees. Other deciduous trees include oak trees, birch trees, elm trees, maple trees,and most ash trees.

Beech Tree Types: Different Types of Beech Trees

• American Beech Tree, shade tolerant deciduous tree with golden bronze fall color
• Blue Beech Tree
• Chinese Beech Tree, native to China grows approximately 17 feet tall
• Copper Beech Tree, Fagus sylvatica
• Crimean Beech Tree
• European Beech Tree, also known as common beech. It is the tallest of the beech trees which loses its leaves in Spring
• Japanese Beech Tree, native to Japan both leaves and nuts are edible
• Japanese Blue Beech Tree, one of the main tree species in deciduous forests
• Mexican Beech Tree, commonly found in NE and Central Mexico in high altitude mountain forests
• Oriental Beech Tree, grows in mountainous forest regions of Turkey and Iran
• Purple Beech Tree
• Red Beech Tree
• Shining Beech Tree
• Silver Beech Tree, Lophozonia menziesii
• South Chinese Beech Tree, found in China and Vietnam
• Tricolor Beech Tree
• Weeping Beech Tree

Beech Tree Facts and Information on Beech Trees

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Feature Beech Species: American Beech

Beech, American
Fagus grandifolia

A very formal and stately tree. Leaves emerge in late spring, changing from shimmering green to lustrous dark green to golden bronze in the fall. Smooth bark. Plant in well-drained, aerated soil. Can be used as a hedge. Grows to 50'-70' with a 40' spread.


The American Beech can be expected to grow in the zones shown in color in the arborday.org zone map.

Type of Tree:
The American Beech falls into the following type(s): Ornamental Trees, Shade Trees

Mature Height:
The American Beech grows to be 50' - 70' feet in height.

Mature Spread:
The American Beech has a spread of about 50' - 70' at full maturity.

Growth Rate:
This tree grows at a slow to medium growth rate.

Sun:
This beech does well in full sun.

Soil:
The American Beech grows in acidic, loamy, moist, sandy, silty loam, well drained, clay soils.

Moisture:
Well drained. The tree is very drought sensitive.

Shape:
This beech has oval, pyramidal shape.

Leaves:
The leaves from this tree are 3 to 6 inches long, alternately arranged and marked with parallel veins that lead to sharp, incurved teeth on the margins. Glossy green color changing to copper in autumn.

Flower Color:
Light brown and pale.

Bloom Time:
April-May.

Fruit Description:
The fruit is oval, 1/2 to 1 inch in diameter, hard, brown, attractive to wildlife.

Additional Information: American Beech

Attributes:
The American Beech tree is worth saving if it occurs on your property and one worth planting if you can meet its needs, including giving it plenty of space. Longevity compensates for its slow growth and a dense green canopy that changes to yellow-brown in autumn is reward for catering to its demanding nature. Throughout the eastern half of the United States, where this species occurs naturally, the four tiny nuts in each spiny bur are prized by a wide range of birds and mammals, including discerning humans.

Description:
A very formal and stately tree. Leaves emerge in late spring, changing from shimmering green to lustrous dark green to golden bronze in the fall. Smooth bark. Plant in well-drained, aerated soil. Can be used as a hedge. Grows to 50'-70' with a 40' spread. (Zones 4-9)

Wildlife Value:
Beechnuts are eaten by birds and mammals and are important food for chipmunks and squirrels.

History/Lore/Use:
A sturdy, densely canopied tree, the American Beech was a sign of fertile soil to early settlers and was quickly removed so the plow could take over and farming for food could commence. In hilly locations, it was the home for migrating Passenger Pigeons who were so numerous that they broke off the limbs of the trees from the sheer weight of their numbers when they perched on them. There was a Beech tree on the old stage road between Blountsville and Jonesboro, Tennessee that had an inscription carved into the trunk that read "D. Boone Cilled A Bar On Tree In Year 1760." The tree fell in 1916 and had a girth of 28-1/2 feet. The Forest Service estimated the tree's age to be 365 years, fully two centuries old before Daniel Boone inscribed it.

Beech Tree Disease

Beech bark disease, Nectina coccinea var, faginata

Beech Tree Trivia

The "mast" of a beech tree refers to the nuts which were traditionally used for pig food.

A forked beech twig was traditionally used for locating underground water source.

The European Beech is highly sensitive to salt and therefore does not do well near the coast or close to roads that are salted in winter.

Some deciduous trees hang on to some of their leaves throughout winter. The term used to describe dead leaf retention is 'marcescence.' Beech and oak trees as well as hornbeam and witch hazel display this characteristic. The reason for this is not known but there are various theories.

Beech Tree Uses

Tar from the beech tree, known as creosote, is painted on fences, railway ties, and utility poles as a wood preservative

Beech Tree; American Variety

American Beech Tree is relatively slow-growing deciduous tree. The American Beech reaches its greatest size growing in the alluvial soil of the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys. Here the beech trees are known to be 300 to 400 years old.

Beech Tree Wood

Beech tree wood is excellent hardwood great for column posts, lath turnings, house finishing trim and for steam bending. Beech tree's wood is also used for flooring, furniture, veneer as it takes a finish well and is structurally strong.

Beech Tree Nuts

Nuts from the American Beech Tree have a distinctive triangular nut shape. Some Beech nuts are eaten by people but most importantly beech nuts are an important food for wildlife in the Autumn.

Tree Symbolism

The symbolic meaning of the beech tree is tolerance, patience, and lightness of spirit and words. You can read more about tree symbolism by visiting symbolism.co

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