Fagus grandifolia
American Beech, Grandiflora Beech
Beech's common name comes from a Saxon word meaning book. The smooth, light gray bark was once used like paper, and the wood used to make tablets.
Fagus grandifolia
( American Beech )
This is a spreading tree, often shrubby in appearance. Leaves are oval with distinctly toothed margins, dark green with silky-hair texture in spring, turning golden brown in the fall.
American beech Fagaceae Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. symbol: FAGR
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#520 Fagus grandifolia
Common Names: beech, American beech, Carolina beech
Family: Fagaceae (beech Family)
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American Beech
(Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.)
LEAVES: Alternate, simple, 3"-4" long, stiff leathery texture, with a tapered tip and sharply toothed margins, light green and glossy above, yellow green below.
American beech (Fagus grandifolia) belongs to the same family as the oaks, but, unlike the oaks which have diversified into many species, the beech is represented only by a single species in North America.
* 19. Beech / Be/ Fagus grandifolia leaf
6-14 cm long, 3-7 cm wide.
shape-elliptical.
prominent straight veins, each ends in a single tooth.
American Fagus grandifolia
Blue (syn. American Hornbeam) Carpinus caroliniana
European Fagus sylvatica
Fernleaf Fagus sylvatica ‘Asplenifolia'
Purpleleaf or Copperleaf Fagus sylvatica ‘Purpurea' aka ‘Atropurpurea' and ‘Cuprea' ...
Hêtre Américain [French]: Fagus grandifolia
Hónapos Retek [Hungarian]: Raphanus sativus
Hópehelyvirág Fehér [Hungarian]: Bacopa diffusus
Hői [Vietnamese]: Illicium verum
Hők [Laotian]: Dendrocalamus brandisii ...
Fagus grandifolia: American beech - With its pale, silvery bark and rich green leaves, the American beech is considered a more desirable landscape plant than the European.
Fagus grandifolia (American Beech)
Fagus sylvatica (Fernleaf Beech)
Fagus sylvatica (Beech 'Purple Fountain')
Fagus sylvatica (Beech 'Retroflexa')
Fagus sylvatica (European Beech)
Lithocarpus densiflorus (Tanbark Oak)
Nothofagus antarctica ...
Red Maple Acer rubrum Sugar Maple Acer saccharum Grey Alder Alnus incana River Birch Betula nigra American Beech Fagus grandifolia European Beech F. sylvatica White Ash Fraxinus americana Green Ash F. pennsylvanica Hessei European Ash F.
The American beech (Fagus grandifolia, Zone 4) is native from Nova Scotia to Ontario and south to Florida's panhandle.
Trees: Balsam Fir (Abies balsamea), Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum), Yellow Birch (Betula alligheniensis), Paper Birch (Betula papyrifera), Beech (Fagus grandifolia), Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica), White Pine (Pinus strobus), ...
Stop 11- Fagus grandifolia
Stop 12- Acer saccharum
Stop 13- Acer rubrum
Stop 14- Acer saccharinum
Stop 15- Quercus robur 'Fastigiata'
Stop 16- Acer platanoides
Stop 17- Betula alleghaniensis
Stop 18- Betula pendula ...
Fagus grandifolia, American Beech
Ilex opaca, American Holly
Ostrya virginiana, Eastern Hophornbeam
Picea glauca, White Spruce
Picea mariana, Black Spruce
Picea rubens, Red Spruce
Tilia americana, Basswood ...
Aesculus octandra, Dirca palustris, Euonymus americanus, Fagus grandifolia, Hamamelis virginiana, Hydrangea arborescens, Liriodendron tulipifera, Magnolia acuminata, Stewartia ovata.
Medicinal uses:
The species has no significant medicinal uses.
Wintercreeper ('Coloratus') Euonymus japonicus Japanese Euonymus Euonymus kiautschovicus Spreading Euonymus Euonymus kiautschovicus 'Manhattan' Manhattan Euonymus Exochorda racemosa Common Pearlbush Botanical Name Common Name Fagus grandifolia ...
 See also: Beech, Green, American beech, European beech, Maple
  
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