beeches
Fagus
Beech (Fagus) is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia and North America. Recent classification systems of the genus recognize ten to thirteen species in two distinct subgenera, Engleriana and Fagus. The Engleriana subgenus is found only in East Asia, and is notably distinct from the Fagus subgenus in that these beeches are low-branching trees, often made up of several major trunks with yellowish bark. Further differentiating characteristics include...
12 branches of this genus, most-observed first
American beech
speciesFagus grandifolia
European beech
speciesFagus sylvatica
Oriental Beech
speciesFagus orientalis
Crimean beech
hybridFagus × taurica
Taiwan beech
speciesFagus hayatae
Japanese beech
speciesFagus crenata
Mexican beech
speciesFagus mexicana
Japanese Blue Beech
speciesFagus japonica
Fagus longipetiolata
speciesFagus longipetiolata
Fagus lucida
speciesFagus lucida
Chinese Beech
speciesFagus engleriana
Fagus chienii
speciesFagus chienii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Garden of Health
1507 · p.146
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.239
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.381
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.782
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.841
Elements of Botany
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort · 1719 · p.102
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.180
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.357
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49203.