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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Beech - 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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Species - Deciduous - Tree - Fagaceae - Europe - Asia - North America - Leaves - Flower - Catkin - Fruit - Nut - Tannin

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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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Lepidoptera - Oak Hook-tip - Large Emerald - Pale November Moth - Light Emerald - 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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Nothofagus - Australia - New Zealand - New Guinea - New Caledonia - South America

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