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Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. 1787
Fagaceae
(APG IV)American beech
Akzessionnummer: SP-EB-054-9981
Pflanzjahr: 2015
Taxon concept: The Plant List (2014), version 1.1
Distribution: native to southeastern Canada and the eastern United States incl. southern States of the Great Plains, isolated sites in Mexico
Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. - Accepted: Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. bei The Plant List (2010); Familie: Fagaceae (APG III)Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. - Accepted: Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. bei Zander 2008; Familie: Fagaceae (Zander 2008)Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. - Accepted: Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. bei The Plant List (2014), version 1.1; Familie: Fagaceae (APG III)Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. - Accepted: Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. bei The Plant List (2010); Familie: Fagaceae (APG IV)
- Flowers
- monoecious
- Flower ecology
- wind-pollinated (anemophilous)
- Life form
- tree
- Foliage persistence
- deciduous
- Fruits
- paired nut fruit in a soft-spined cupule
- Fruit ecology
- barochorous and zoochorous (herbivors and birds)
- Light conditions
- very shade tolerant species
- Natural occurrence (habitat)
- mixed deciduous forests (e.g. Sugar Maple-Beech-Yellow Birch Forest, Red Spruce-Sugar Maple-Beech Forest and Beech-Sugar Maple Forest)
- Vegetation typ and synecology (plant community)
- temperate, mixed mesophytic deciduous forests
- Constraints according moisture
- sensitive to drought, frost and frequent flooding
- Usage
- as fuel wood because of its high density and good burning qualities; the roasted seed is a coffee substitute; timber suited for the production of flooring, furniture, veneer, plywood and railway ties; used for the production of handicrafts and in the manufacture of paper and pulp
Kew Gardens and Collaborators (2017): Plants of the World Online. see: plantsoftheworldonline.org.; The International Plant Names Index (2009). Published on the Internet http://www.ipni.org; Courtesy to IPNI, 2009. Exported from IPNI at date: 2009-09-22 20:17:51;
