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Fagus grandifolia is a large deciduous tree [6] growing to 16–35 metres (52–115 feet) tall, [7] with smooth, silver-gray bark.The leaves are dark green, simple and sparsely-toothed with small teeth that terminate each vein, 6–12 centimetres (2 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 4 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches) long (rarely 15 cm or 6 in), with a short petiole.
Beech bark disease is a fungal infection that attacks the American beech through damage caused by scale insects. [39] Infection can lead to the death of the tree. [40] Beech leaf disease is a disease that affects American beeches spread by the newly discovered nematode, Litylenchus crenatae mccannii.
Quercus arizonica, the Arizona white oak, is a North American tree species in the beech family. It is found in Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sinaloa, and Durango. [4] [5] [6]
Matt Borden, a plant pathologist with Bartlett Tree Experts, looking at the leaves of a beech tree infected with beech leaf disease in Wildwood State Park in New York, on July 13, 2023.
Two of my favorite spring plants, almost entirely based upon their progression from bud to leaf, are beech trees and false hellebore.
The Fagaceae (/ f ə ˈ ɡ eɪ s i. iː,-ˌ aɪ /; from Latin fagus 'beech tree') are a family of flowering plants that includes beeches, chestnuts and oaks, and comprises eight genera with about 927 species. [2] Fagaceae in temperate regions are mostly deciduous, whereas in the tropics, many species occur as evergreen trees and shrubs.
Several trees normally have marcescent leaves such as oak (Quercus), [5] beech (Fagus) and hornbeam (Carpinus), or marcescent stipules as in some but not all species of willows . [6] All oak trees may display foliage marcescence, even species that are known to fully drop leaves when the tree is mature. [7]
Magellan's beech; birch-leaf beech; guindo Nothofagaceae (southern beech family) Nothofagus cunninghamii: myrtle beech Nothofagaceae (southern beech family) Nothofagus dombeyi: coihue; coigue; false beech Nothofagaceae (southern beech family) Nothofagus fusca: red beech Nothofagaceae (southern beech family) Nothofagus menziesii: silver beech