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Beech Tree

By MJCrave On March 5, 2011 Under Know Your Trees, Logging

The Wonderful Beech Tree

Beechwood or Beech tree comes from the family tree species of Fagaceae, that sheds of their leaves during the fall which is a wonderful and dramatic scene to capture. This type of tree is a native in Eurasia and North America.

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Beech Tree Facts

The leaves of the beech tree grows for about 5 to 15 cm long with a width of 4 to 10 cm. The flowers are kind of small and is monoecious. The female and male flowers are born separately; the male flower are often conspicuous in the spring, when they shed their pollen, as in oaks. A unique feature of the family is the cupule, a cuplike, often scale-covered structure that surrounds the single-seeded nut. The cap of an acorn is a good example of a cupule.
The Beech trees are beautifully majestic in its vibrant colors of deep and luscious green and copper.

Uses of Beech Tree

In the old times, Beech is used as a medium is writing before the development of paper during the Germanic era. The modern word book was derived from its name as the connection is even more apparent in German words like “das Buch” or “Buche”.

The beech wood is a good firewood, producing bright and calm flames that burns for longer hours. Its chips are used in the brewing of beers and the logs are used to burn the dry malts, giving the beer a fine and typical taste. Beech wood can also be used in smoking some cheeses. The soot of burned beechwood is used in the making pigment called bistre.

The pulp of the beech wood makes a fine cloth known as modal.

Beech Tree Diseases

Just like any tree, Beech trees also suffers damages from fungis and insects which inhabits the tree. These parasites slowly kills the tree making the trunk cripple and the leaves unsightly brown and curled.

1. Beech bark disease which is primarily caused by beech scales, a soft bodied insect that feeds on the trees. This leaves the tree a white, waxy substance resulting to the weakening of the tree bark and is exposed to the fungus Nectria galligena. This fungus will eat up the whole tree, eventually killing it.

2. Bleeding beech is caused by the fungus pythophora, the tree disease itself is known as bleeding canker fungus. This is characterozed by reddish-brown, oozing dead spots that eats the tree and slowly killing it resulting to weakening and fatal breakage.

3. Powdery mildew leaves the white powder on the leaves making it crinkled and wilted. This is not actually a major problem on beech tree and other trees because it can be controlled by spraying fungicide, killing off the fungus and makes the leaves spotless.

Please Note: Our Logging company does not harvest single trees or just a few trees in a yard. If you own forested property with beech trees and other species contact us to receive fair market value and a high quality harvesting job.

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