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Fagus sylvatica (European beech)

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Fagus sylvatica, the European beech or common beech, is a deciduous tree belonging to the beech family Fagaceae.
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Infraspecies

Fagus sylvatica moesiaca
Fagus sylvatica sylvatica

Attributes

Air Quality Improvement [1]  Low
Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-High
Carbon Capture [1]  Medium-High
Shade Percentage [1]  88 %
Temperature Reduction [1]  Medium
Wind Reduction [1]  Medium-Low
Dispersal Mode [6]  Autochory, Hoarding
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Monoecious
Hazards [2]  Large quantities of the seed may be toxic;
Janka Hardness [3]  1300 lbf (590 kgf) Medium
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [4]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Wind
Specific Gravity [7]  0.585
Structure [2]  Tree
Usage [2]  A semi-drying oil is obtained from the seed, it is used as a fuel for lighting, as a lubricant, for polishing wood etc; The seed residue is poisonous; The leaf buds harvested in the winter and dried on the twigs are used as toothpicks; The leaves are gathered in autumn and used as a stuffing material for mattresses etc; Wood - hard, heavy, strong, very durable; It is not suitable for outdoor use; It has a wide range of applications, including furniture, flooring, turnery etc; It makes a very good fuel; The wood has often been used as a source of creosote, tar, methyl alcohol. acetic acid;
Height [2]  98 feet (30 m)
Width [2]  49 feet (15 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 4 Low Temperature: -30 F° (-34.4 C°) → -20 F° (-28.9 C°)
Hardiness Zone Maximum [1]  USDA Zone: 7 Low Temperature: 0 F° (-17.8 C°) → 10 F° (-12.2 C°)
Light Preference [5]  Mostly Shady
Soil Acidity [5]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [5]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [5]  Moist
Water Use [1]  High to Moderate
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External References

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Citations

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♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Wood Janka Hardness Scale/Chart J W Morlan's Unique Wood Gifts
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♦ 7Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 8Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 9New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 10Ecology of Commanster
♦ 11HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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♦ 13Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 14Influences of the feeding ecology on body mass and possible implications for reproduction in the edible dormouse (Glis glis), Joanna Fietz, M. Pflug, W. Schlund, F. Tataruch, J Comp Physiol B (2005) 175: 45–55
♦ 15Year-round monitoring of diversity and potential metabolic activity of the ectomycorrhizal community in a beech (Fagus silvatica) forest subjected to two thinning regimes, Marc Buée, Dominique Vairelles, Jean Garbaye, Mycorrhiza (2005) 15: 235–245
♦ 16Host preferences and differential contributions of deciduous tree species shape mycorrhizal species richness in a mixed Central European forest, Christa Lang & Jasmin Seven & Andrea Polle, Mycorrhiza, Springer, 14 September 2010
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0