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Fagus sylvatica

species of beech tree
APG IV Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • (unranked): Archaeplastida • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: Angiosperms • Cladus: eudicots • Cladus: core eudicots • Cladus: superrosids • Cladus: rosids • Cladus: eurosids I • Ordo: Fagales • Familia: Fagaceae • Genus: Fagus • Species: Fagus sylvatica L. (1753)

Images of the whole plant & Natural habitats edit

Belgium edit

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    Autumn leaves in Morlanwelz-Mariemont, Belgium
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    Rocherath.
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    Fagus Sylvatica in Esneux.
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    Fetich tree in Jalhay.
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    Fagus Sylvatica in Roly.
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    Fagus Sylvatica in La Hulpe.
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    Autumn leaves in La Hulpe, Belgium
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    Fagus Sylvatica in La Hulpe.
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    Foret de Soignes - Zonienwoud

Bulgaria edit

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    North slope of Botev, Stara Planina, Bulgaria
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    Sredna Gora mountains.

Denmark edit

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    Autumn in the beech forests at Gråsten (Gravenstein)
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    New leaves, Grib Forest, Denmark

France edit

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    Pays de Caux, Normandy.
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    Forest in Saint-Antoine, Cozzano, Corsica.
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    Plateau d'Albion, single tree

Hungary edit

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    Beech forest in the Mátra Mts. (Hungary)

Italy edit

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    Beech forest near the Rocca Barbena
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    Veteran beech tree in Mallare
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    Faggio di San Francesco veteran tree in Rivodutri
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    Il "faggio del piccione"

Germany edit

Netherlands edit

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    old Copper beech near Bladel, The Netherlands

Norway edit

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    "Bøkeskogen" in Larvik, Norway

Poland edit

Slovakia edit

Spain edit

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    Bosque de hayas en el Monte Saja (Cantabria)
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    La Fageda d'en Jordà (Catalonia)
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    Fagus sylvatica var. 'purpurea tricolor' in Parque del Oeste, Madrid.
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    Beeches in Ordunte province of Burgos.
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    Beeches in Irati.
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    Beeches in Hayedo de Montejo.

Switzerland edit

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    Schinberg, Fricktal, Switzerland
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    Switzerland, snow-covered

United Kingdom edit

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    Sutton Coldfield Park
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    Beech in autumn, Scotland

Remarkable beeches edit

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    Beech in Urwald Sababurg 8,83m circumference measured in 2005
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    Called Li Béni Hesse in Bonnerue (Belgium)
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    8m cicumference measured in 2007 - Bonnerue, Belgium
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    l’Arbre à deux jambes (Tree if two legs) in Arquennes, Belgium.
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    Remarkable beech in Esneux (Belgium). 686 cm at 150 cm from the ground (2007).
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    View of the same beech in Esneux.
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    250 years, in Neualbenreuth.
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    Planted in 1859, Category:Villa Visconti Borromeo Arese Litta (Lainate), Italy.
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    300 years, Harthausen, Deutschland.
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    300 years, Maienfeld, Schweiz.
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    Fagus sylvatica var. ‘Atropunicea’ in the Park of Mariemont, Belgium. 535 cm of circumference at 150cm from the ground (2007)

Special growth forms edit

Hedges edit

Trees grown from untended hedges edit

Pasture beech edit

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    The pasture bech
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    is a particular species or growth habit.
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    When leaves and branches are nibbled by the grazing animals,
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    the trees have no main trunk and grow bushy.

Bonsai edit

Morphology edit

Roots edit

Stems and branches edit

Seedling edit

Buds edit

Leaves edit

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    Leaves with hairs
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    Leaves
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    Young leaf
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      Bottom side of young leaves, Poland
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    young leaves with hairs
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    Fagus sylvatica, follaje otoñal
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    Leaf in autumn colour
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    Lammas shoot
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    English: Young leaves of a 4 months old european beech
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    English: Young leave of a 4 months old european beech - closeup
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    English: Terminal shoot of a 4 months old european beech
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    'Rohan Weeping'
 See also: Leaves and branches.

Flowers edit

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    Flowers
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    Flowers
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    male flowers (left), female flower (right)

Capsules (fruit) & Seeds edit

Cultivars edit

Diseases edit

Mikiola fagi (Cecidomyiidae) galls on foliage edit

Hartigiola annulipes galls on foliage edit

Rhynchaenus fagi (Orchestes fagi) edit

Fungus edit

Canker edit

Wood edit

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    beech-fuelwood, Germany
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      Cross section, Silesian Beskids, Poland
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    near Jaworzyna Krynicka, Poland
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       Fagus sylvatica - Museum specimen

Fossil forms edit

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    Fagus sylvatica pliocenica

Botanical illustrations edit

 

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