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	American Beech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The American Beech Fagus grandifolia is a species of beech native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Ontario in southeastern Canada, west to Wisconsin and south to eastern Texas and northern Florida in the United States.
		A related beech native to the mountains of central Mexico is sometimes treated as a subspecies of American Beech, but more often as a distinct species, Mexican Beech Fagus mexicana.
		American Beech is an important tree in forestry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Beech (457 words)

	Beech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beech is also the name of an aircraft manufacturer that was acquired by Raytheon.
		Beech (Fagus) is a genus of ten species of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia, and North America.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beech (241 words)

	WildWNC.org : Trees : American Beech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		American beech is found within an area from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia west to Maine, southern Quebec, southern Ontario, northern Michigan, and eastern Wisconsin; then south to southern Illinois, southeastern Missouri, northwestern Arkansas, southeastern Oklahoma, and eastern Texas; east to northern Florida and northeast to southeastern South Carolina.
		Beech is found generally within two principal soil groups: the gray-brown podzolic (Hapludalf) and the laterite (Acrorthox) and is prevalent on podzols; it is seldom found on limestone soils except at the western edge of its range.
		Beech bark disease is initiated when yet another scale insect, the beech scale, Cryptococcus fagisuga, attacks the bark of beech trees and renders it susceptible to bark canker fungi of the genus Nectria (3,33).
	wildwnc.org /trees/Fagus_grandifolia.html (3934 words)

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		Beech is often seen in groves because of its propensity for reproducing itself asexually by root suckers.
		American beech wood was used as a source of fuel for their large, open fireplaces.
		American beech is more difficult to propagate and produce in the nursery than European beech so it is not often sold in commercial nurseries.
	www.uky.edu /Ag/Horticulture/kytreewebsite/commonnamefiles/text/fgrandifoliainfo.htm (611 words)

	American Beech Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		American beech is one of the dominant canopy species of the northern hardwood forest found at all but the highest elevations in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest.
		American beech, sugar maple, and yellow birch are the three major hardwood canopy species of the Hubbard Brook forest.
		Beech is very effective at intercepting light in the understory, and we believe it is the shading effect of beech that is the cause of this decline in sugar maple regeneration.
	www.hubbardbrook.org /yale/watersheds/w6/tree-stop/beech/beech-tree.htm (1449 words)

	American Beech - Fagus grandifolia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The American Beech tree grows in the southern and eastern parts of the United States.
		The American beech is a tall and wide tree.
		The american Beech's population is healthy throughout its range.
	www.blueplanetbiomes.org /american_beech.htm (339 words)

	Plant Information Center - NC Trees - American Beech
		American Beech (Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.) Beech is found throughout the state, however, it grows best in moist mountain coves.
		The American beech has oblong-ovate pointed leaves 2 to 6 inches long that are mostly grouped toward the ends of the branches on short branchlets.
		American beech is an extremely important source of mast (food) for a wide variety of wildlife.
	www.ibiblio.org /pic/NCTrees/americanbeech.htm (298 words)

	Fagus grandifolia english
		American beech grows in southeast Canada and in the eastern half of the United States, from Maine to northern Florida, and west from the Atlantic Coast to Wisconsin, Missouri and Texas.
		American beech trees reach heights of 120 ft (37 m), with a diameter of almost 4 ft (1.2 m).
		The sapwood of American beech is white with a red tinge, while the heartwood is light to dark reddish brown.
	www2.fpl.fs.fed.us /TechSheets/HardwoodNA/htmlDocs/fagus1.html (417 words)

	AllRefer.com - beech, Plant (Plants) - Encyclopedia
		The beeches have distinctive smooth, silvery gray bark and pale green leaves that turn golden in autumn and are often winter-persistent.
		A slow-growing tree, it is declining in abundance through lumbering and through beech bark disease, a fungal infection that attacks the tree through holes bored in its bark by a scale insect.
		The blue, or water, beech is an American hornbeam of the birch family.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/beech.html (366 words)

	February 2004 - American Beech Tree Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A fungus indicative of the disease was discovered growing on beech tree bark in December 2003, according to the ODNR Division of Forestry.
		Beech trees become infected with the disease after the beech scale (an insect from Europe) pierces the thin bark to suck sap.
		In March of 2000, the beech scale insect (Cryptococcus fagisuga) was discovered in Michigan, and in 2001 it was determined that beech bark disease was killing the state's beech trees.
	www.dnr.state.oh.us /news/feb04/0220beechdisease.htm (479 words)

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		Beech trees are typical of the hardwood forests of the eastern United States.
		The American beech can be found in Lake and Cook counties, the southern fourth of the state, and extending along the eastern border from Vermilion County south.
		Beeches are slow-growing and may attain an age of 300 to 400 years.
	www.inhs.uiuc.edu /chf/pub/surveyreports/jan-feb97/beech.html (467 words)

	American Beech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Beech can be expected to live 200 to 300 years or longer.
		Many that are found in Beech forests are generally in bottomland areas although they won't withstand wet soils, and will not tolerate compaction being shallow rooted.
		It's one downfall is a Beech tree has always been a favorite through the centuries for carving ones initials and other epithets in.
	www.uah.edu /admin/Fac/grounds/AMBEECH.HTM (238 words)

	Maine Tree Species Fact Sheet - American Beech
		The American Beech is a slow to medium growing tree and reaches 50-70 feet in height, with a trunk diameter of 13 feet and a spread usually less than or equal to height.
		American Beech is a large tree that often has a short trunk and wide-spreading crown.
		Beech mast is eaten by a variety of birds and mammals such as mice, squirrels, fl bears, foxes, ruffed grouse and ducks.
	www.umaine.edu /umext/mainetreeclub/FactSheets/AmericanBeech.htm (745 words)

	American Beech - Plant of the Week
		American beech (Fagus grandifolia) belongs to the same family as the oaks, but, unlike the oaks which have diversified into many species, the beech is represented only by a single species in North America.
		Beeches often sucker, so a monarch tree will oftentimes be surrounded by younger saplings arising from its own roots.
		American beech is occasionally offered by nurserymen, but the European species with its many cultivars is more likely to be offered.
	www.arhomeandgarden.org /plantoftheweek/articles/Beech_American_12-16-05.htm (646 words)

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		The fruit of the beech tree, the beechnut, is a triangular shaped edible nut.
		The American beech tree is one of the most widespread trees.
		Although it is most common to find the American beech tree from the east coast to as far west as Missouri and Arkansas you can also find this species in the southern Appalachian Mountains.
	www.msu.edu /user/walkert7/te402.htm (543 words)

	Beech
		The four tiny nuts in each spiny bur of this American native are much prized by birds and various mammals, including man. The wood is almost white and is used most often in toys, cookware, furniture and for barrels which age beer.
		Beech can be wired, but wiring saps the vigor of the tree, and should not be left on longer than three months.
		Fagus sylvatica 'Atropurpurea' ('Atropunicea'): copper beech - With its copper red to brownish-fl foliage, this cultivar is commonly seen on the American east coast and in western Canada.
	www.bonsai-bci.com /species/beech.html (1265 words)

	herb data, Beech, Fagus grandifolia, American Beech, holisticonline.com
		The Rappahannock Indians steeped beech bark in saltwater to produce a poison ivy lotion.
		Beech sap was one of the ingredients used to make a syrup that was used for tuberculosis.
		Beech bark and leaves have astringent and antiseptic properties.
	www.holistic-online.com /Herbal-Med/_Herbs/h17.htm (194 words)

	American Beech
		The American Beech tree, Fagus Grandifolia, has a short trunk, with a spreading crown and is a very stately tree.
		This beech tree is a dense shade tree whose nuts attract birds and squirrels.
		American Beech trees have a slow to moderate growth rate.
	naturehills.com /new/product/productdetails.aspx?proname=American+Beech (128 words)

	american beech
		American Beech are fairly large trees, usually up to 80 feet tall.
		American Beech leaves turn yellow-brown in the Fall.
		American Beech is often planted as a shade tree or landscape tree on lawns and in parks.
	www.fcps.k12.va.us /StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/american_beech.htm (271 words)

	American Beech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Of all our deciduous trees, the American beech has the most easily recognizable bark: it is pale gray and smooth.
		Since bears like to eat beech seeds, called beechnuts, claw marks can sometimes be seen on a trunk where a bear has climbed to the top of the tree.
		Beeches grow in rich, well-drained soil on bottomlands and slopes.
	www.domtar.com /arbre/english/p_hetre.htm (125 words)

	American beech - Trees Forum - GardenWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I think American beech is one of the most beautiful trees in MD. I'm interested in planting one in my front yard.
		It appears that something in the leaf litter of beech can suppress sugar maple - so it would be logical that other species may be affected as well.
		The problem you're probably referring to - "beech bark disease" - is actually a complex of an exotic scale insect (Cryptococcus fagisuga) and a couple of Nectria fungi, one of which is the insect's exotic associate (N.
	forums2.gardenweb.com /forums/load/trees/msg082253556434.html (497 words)

	Discover Life - Fagaceae: Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. - American beech, Beech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Seed Production and Dissemination- Beech ordinarily begins to produce a substantial amount of seeds when about 40 years old, and by the time it is 60 years old may produce large quantities.
		The height of beech seedlings growing in the intense competition of a virgin hemlock-hardwood stand in northern Pennsylvania (39) was as follows:
		Growth data for beech in the Lake States are shown in table 1.
	pick4.pick.uga.edu /mp/20q?search=Fagus+grandifolia (4266 words)

	American Beech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		American Beech is a stately and beautiful tree.
		Copper Beech and Weeping Beech are European varieties which are often planted ast ornamentals in parks.
		It tolerates shade and gradually dominates the forest growth.
	www.westol.com /~pennwest/trees/americanbeech.html (70 words)

	eBay - american beech, Prints, Tools, Hardware Locks items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		1/2" American Beech 5 pcs 7" - 8" W 29" - 36" L
		15/16" American Beech 5 pcs 7" - 8 1/4" W 36" L
		13/16" American Beech 8 pcs 7" - 7 1/2" W 36" L
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=american+beech&newu=1&... (275 words)

	Eastern Old-Growth Clearinghouse: FAQ
		Sugar Maple accounted for 27.3% of the basal area of the canopy, Tulip Tree for 16.5%, and American Beech for 13.6%.
		He found a forest composed of "many large, climax species," including massive oaks, and American beech, "impressive" tulip trees,and red maple, with a native understory of American hornbeam, spice bush, and other species.
		You can send an email to the Newfoundland Premier to let him know that Americans and others are not interested in buying the last remaining old growth of Newfoundland by going to www.earthisland.org/bfp.
	primalnature.org /updates.html (10374 words)

	American Beech - Compare Prices, Reviews and Buy at NexTag - Price - Review
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	WAC \| Forestry Grants Profile - 1
		Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Duncan Axtell, President, have strived to keep the company local, competitive, and renowned for its customer service.
		They buy regionally-harvested yellow birch, hard and soft maple, fl cherry and American beech.
		Once on-site at the Stamford plant, their workers rip, mill, dimension, dry, glue, plane and fashion the wood into one of dozens of beautiful end products.
	www.nycwatershed.org /ei_forestry_archive_jan04.html (664 words)

	TreeHelp.com: Trees: Species: Beech Types: American Beech
		Home > Trees > Species Info > Beech > Types >
		This large tree is naturally low-branched with attractive glossy green leaves.
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