Tree id: Beech (Fagus sylvatica) Beechnut or European beech, copper beech, Dawyck & weeping beech uk скачать в хорошем качестве

Tree id: Beech (Fagus sylvatica) Beechnut or European beech, copper beech, Dawyck & weeping beech uk

Beech tree identification. How to identify Fagus sylvatica, the European beech or common beech or beechnut tree is a deciduous tree belonging to the beech family Fagaceae. Cultivars include, copper beech, dwarf beech, Dawyck beech and weeping beech. Although often regarded as native in southern England, recent evidence suggests that F. sylvatica did not arrive in England until about 4000 BC, or 2,000 years after the English Channel formed after the ice ages; it could have been an early introduction by Stone age humans, who used the nuts for food. The beech is classified as a native in the south of England and as a non-native in the north where it is often removed from 'native' woods. The leaves are alternate, simple, and entire or with a slightly crenate margin, 5–10 cm long and 3–7 cm broad, with 6–7 veins on each side of the leaf (7–10 veins in Fagus orientalis). When crenate, there is one point at each vein tip, never any points between the veins. The buds are long and slender, 15–30 mm (0.59–1.18 in) long and 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) thick, but thicker (to 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in)) where the buds include flower buds. The leaves of beech are often not abscissed in the autumn and instead remain on the tree until the spring. This process is called marcescence. This particularly occurs when trees are saplings or when plants are clipped as a hedge (making beech hedges attractive screens, even in winter), but it also often continues to occur on the lower branches when the tree is mature. Small quantities of seeds may be produced around 10 years of age, but not a heavy crop until the tree is at least 30 years old. F. sylvatica male flowers are borne in the small catkins which are a hallmark of the Fagales order (beeches, chestnuts, oaks, walnuts, hickories, birches, and hornbeams). The female flowers produce beechnuts, small triangular nuts 15–20 millimetres (0.59–0.79 in) long and 7–10 mm (0.28–0.39 in) wide at the base; there are two nuts in each cupule, maturing in the autumn 5–6 months after pollination. Flower and seed production is particularly abundant in years following a hot, sunny and dry summer, though rarely for two years in a row. Since the early 19th century there have been numerous cultivars of European beech made by horticultural selection, often repeatedly; they include: copper beech or purple beech (Fagus sylvatica Purpurea Group) - leaves purple, in many selections turning deep spinach green by mid-summer. fern-leaf beech (Fagus sylvatica Heterophylla Group) - leaves deeply serrated to thread-like dwarf beech (Fagus sylvatica Tortuosa Group) - distinctive twisted trunk and branches weeping beech (Fagus sylvatica Pendula Group) - branches pendulous Dawyck beech (Fagus sylvatica 'Dawyck') - fastigiate (columnar) growth - occurs in green, gold and purple forms; named after Dawyck Botanic Garden in the Scottish Borders golden beech (Fagus sylvatica 'Zlatia') - leaves golden in spring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagus_s... #trees #treeid Footage from    / natreswales   Natural Resources Wales "Our purpose is to ensure that the natural resources of Wales are sustainably maintained, enhanced and used, now and in the future." Ein diben yw sicrhau bod adnoddau naturiol Cymru yn cael eu cynnal, eu gwella a'u defnyddio yn gynaliadwy, yn awr ac yn y dyfodol. FREE tool for smallyoutubers to gow their channels. Youtube certified! https://www.tubebuddy.com/freetreestuff