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Beech Tree This splendid tree, native from Europe, was called for a long time and with a reason, the "queen of the forest"; it reaches the height of over 40 meters, with a majestic appearance and huge crown.It constitutes a magnificent show with a robust trunk of big spurs and heavy gray-silver branches immersed in a cloud of greenness that in isolated trees is spread forming a wide circle of thick shadow to 35m diameter. Formerly many beech trees were topped, so the trunks were very short and numerous branches very heavy, but under the orders of an expert forester the beech trees will form long and plain trunks of perfect wood, of right grain and without knots. The wood is of a characteristic cream-rosy color, splashed with darker brown, of uniform grain, without any difference between the spring and the estival log. It is quite hard, strong, easy to work and highly appreciated for furniture, especially chairs, floors handle for articles, turnery and veneer, modern boards, etc. The thin pointed brown-reddish buds are 1,5-2cm long and the young leaves light green, with silver pubescent margins; the adult leaves are ovoid 4-8 x 3-6 cm, with marked parallel nerves and slightly wavy margins. It blossoms in mid spring at the same time that the leaves are born. The male flowers are grouped in small golden tufts over long peduncles, while the female are more erect, over strong and shorter peduncles, with thin silver filaments, in rosy and greenish shades. The nuts called "beechnuts" are triangular, of sharp and short apex, 1,5-2cm long, brilliant brown, they generally come by two. The common beech grows in calcareous soils where it is the climax specie. It has dense foliage, which produces an intense shadow; therefore the soil is bare. Encyclopedia BLUME, Trees, wood and forests of the world, H. Edlin/M.Nimmo, page 146. |
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