Beech

:For the beech tree, see below. Beech is also the name of an aircraft manufacturer that was acquired by Raytheon.

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Fagus crenata - Japanese Beech

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Fagus engleriana - Chinese Beech

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Fagus grandifolia - American Beech

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Fagus hayatae - Taiwan Beech

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Fagus japonica - Japanese Blue Beech

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Fagus longipetiolata - South Chinese Beech

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Fagus lucida - Shining Beech

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Fagus mexicana - Mexican Beech or Haya

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Fagus orientalis - Oriental Beech

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Fagus sylvatica - European Beech

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Beech (Fagus) is a genus of ten species of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or sparsely toothed, from 5-15 cm long and 4-10 cm broad. The flowers are small single-sex, wind-pollinated catkins, produced in spring shortly after the new leaves appear. The fruit is a small, sharply 3-angled nut 10-15 mm long, borne in pairs in soft-spined husks 1.5-2.5 cm long, known as cupules. The nuts are edible, though bitter with a high tannin content.

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The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental tree is the European Beech (Fagus sylvatica), widely cultivated in North America as well as its native Europe. The European species yields a widely used timber, an easy-to-work utility wood.

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Beeches are used as food plants by some species of Lepidoptera including Oak Hook-tip, Large Emerald, Pale November Moth, Light Emerald and Brown-tail.

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The southern beeches belong to a different genus, Nothofagus in a different family. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New Caledonia and South America.

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Beech: :For the beech tree, see below. Beech is also the name of an aircraft manufacturer that was acquired by Raytheon....

Raytheon: Raytheon Company is a major United States military contractor based in Waltham, Massachusetts. More than 90 percent of Raytheon's revenues are obtained from defense contracts, and as of 2005 it is the fifth largest military contractor in the world http://www.defensenews.com/content/features/2005ch...

Species: In biology, the most commonly used definition of species was first coined by Ernst Mayr. Species are "groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations which are reproductively isolated from other such groups" (however, see other definitions of species below)....

Beech related Images and Photos (experimental)

Beech Leaf	Beech Leaf	Beech Leaves in Spring Fagus Sylvatica	Forest of Beech Trees c.1903
Forest of Beech Trees c.1903	Beech Trees Cast Long Winter Shadows at Batworthy Near Chagford	Beech Trees in Frederiksdal Near Copenhagen 1828	Copper Beech Tree Croft Castle Herefordshire England United Kingdom
Bluebells in a Beech Wood West Stoke West Sussex England UK	Bluebells Flowering in Beech Wood Perthshire Scotland UK	Spring Bluebells in Beech Woodland Dockey Woods Buckinghamshire	Track Leading Through Lanhydrock Beech Woodland with Bluebells in Spring Cornwall UK