Beech Trees
Beech Trees in Autumn Author:Picture post.
The Beach Tree In Michigan
The Beech tree is logged in Michigan for its use for flooring, veneer and in the making of furniture. Beech is good for turning and it also steam bends well.
American Beech Tree
The beech tree is called the American Beech Tree; it is mainly confined to the Eastern Part of the United States including Michigan. The Beech tree is a medium sized tree with simple leaves and a tall trunk, stout when growing in the open.
The Beech Trees is a common forest tree and it produces large crops of fruit every 2 to 8 years. The beech tree is susceptible to early frost that may retard its development which can explain poor fruit production in some years. In the years that it produces a good fruit crop, beech trees are a major source of food for birds and small mammals.
The Beech tree likes to grow in moist slopes, ravines and moist hammocks, mostly in loamy or clay soils.
Beach Trees: Flowering and Fruit
The flowers on the Beech tree emerge in either late April or the early part of May. The flowers on the Beech tree are damaged easily by frosts. The female flower is 1/4” long with hairy and reddish green and has clusters of 3 to 4 while the male is 3/4” – 1” long rounded hanging clusters on a 1 1/2” – 2” long stalk.
The nuts on the Beech Tree ripen between the months of September to November two and sometimes three nuts can be on a single bur, this occurs after a heavy frost. The nut color is yellowish to reddish brown.
Beech Tree Leaves
The Beach Tree leaf is 3”-6” long elliptic to broadly elliptic with a pointed tip. Beech Tree leaves are course and widely spaced with pointed teeth along margins and has 9-14 pairs of veins. The color is glossy with dark green above the leaf and paler below with silky tuffs of hairs on the veins beneath. Fall color is gold to brown.
Beech Tree Bark
Beech tree bark is very handsome looking; it has smooth bark that is light gray. The bark on the beech tree is so different that it is easy to identify and it also has large muscular looking roots that can look like arms and legs. Beech is so alluring of a tree that people have carved in them through the years.
Other items that are manufactured from logging Beech Trees are plywood, baskets, charcoal, rough lumber and railroad ties. Beech Tree wood is used for firewood because of it has superior burning qualities.
More Information on Beech Trees:
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Timelapse film of the germination of a beech seed/nut, into a small plant with the 2 first leaves and the 2 first real leaves.
Questions about Beech or any other tree? Leave a comment below we’ll be glad to reply, especially about Beech Trees.
April 23, 2011
7:16 pm #comment-1
We will be building our retirement home under a canopy of beech and red/sugar maple trees in sandy/loamy soil in Northern Michigan.
How strong are the roots? Also, should I be worried that we want to take out as few trees as possible.
Thanks.