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Fact sheet describes the tree's characterizes, with illustrative photos.
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www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/fgrandifolia....
www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/fgrandifolia.htm
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The American Beech tree grows in the southern and eastern parts of the United States. It grows in deciduous forests all over Maine and northern Massachusetts. It grows best in deep, rich, moist, well-drained soils.
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www.blueplanetbiomes.org/american_beech.htm
www.blueplanetbiomes.org/american_beech.htm
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Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. ... Common name: American beech ... Fagus is an old Greek word for the edible nuts of European beech; grandifolia refers to the large leaves.
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www.biosurvey.ou.edu/shrub/fagr.htm
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Information about the American Beech. ... Leaves: elliptical to oblong, leathery, serrated, high content of tannin ... branch of diseased beech leaves...
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ostermiller.org/tree/americanbeech.html
ostermiller.org/tree/americanbeech.html
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It was very hard to identify the young sapling that I eventually called an American Beech. All that I had to go by was some dried, brown, shriveled up leaves and a split open prickly burr which holds the edible and quite savorous beechnut (The animals just love them).
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www.msu.edu/~prudenda/AmericanBeech.htm
www.msu.edu/~prudenda/AmericanBeech.htm
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The American beech is a large tree. It can be 70 to 80 feet tall with a stem diamerter of 2 to three feet. This tree has a straight trunk which narrows to a rounded crown. It's slender, spreading branches contain 2.5 to 6 inch simple leaves that alternate along the branch.
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www.msu.edu/user/walkert7/te402.htm
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American Beech is a fairly common large tree of rich bottomland forests. The smooth bark, sharply toothed thin leaves with straight veins, and long sharply-pointed buds make this tree very easy to identify.
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www.duke.edu/~cwcook/trees/fagr.html
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American beech Fagaceae Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. symbol: FAGR ... USDAFS Silvics of North America - USDAFS Additional Silvics - Landowner Factsheet - USDA Plants Database; Fagus grandifolia is native to North America. Range may be expanded by planting. See states reporting American beech (opens a new window).
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www.fw.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/fgrandifolia.h...
www.fw.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/fgrandifolia.htm
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American beech (Fagus grandifolia) is the only species of this genus in North America. ... 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,
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www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/silvics_manual/volume_2/fagu...
www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/silvics_manual/volume_2/fagus/grandifolia.htm
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