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Mature Height
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50 - 70 feet |
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Mature Spread
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40 - 50 feet |
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Soil Type
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Well Drained |
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Moisture
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Moist |
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Mature Form
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Round Crown |
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Growth Rate
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Slow |
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Sun Exposure
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Full Sun - Partial
Sun |
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Flower Color
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Small Reddish |
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Fall Color
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Copper and Yellow |
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Foliage Color
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Green |
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Zones
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3-9 |
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The American Beech tree, Fagus Grandifolia, has a short trunk, with a spreading crown and is a very stately tree. These beech trees have thin, smooth blue-gray bark. The American Beech grows best in full sun, but will withstand partial shade.
The fagus grandifolia grows robust in well-drained, moist acid soil; but will not stand compaction. This deciduous species has leaves that are a beautiful dark green in the summer and turn to a golden brown fall color. The foliage on young American Beech remains in winter.
This beech tree is a dense shade tree whose nuts attract birds and squirrels. American Beech trees have a slow to moderate growth rate.
American Beech tree Pests and Disease
In the Northeast, beech has been damaged
or killed by temperatures of -40° to -45° C (-40° to
-50° F) preceded by severe droughts.
Beech trees can be killed by more then 2 weeks of
submergence of their root crowns in summer.
Beech's susceptibility to glaze-storm breakage is no
greater than that of its associated hardwoods and may be
somewhat less than the average for a mixed stand. Except
on shallow soils, beech is rather wind firm.
More than 70 decay fungi have been reported for beech.
The thinness of beech bark also makes it
vulnerable to an unusually large number of sucking
insects, including the beech blight aphid, Fagiphagus
imbricator, and the giant bark aphid, Longistigma caryae.
Continuous heavy outbreaks of the oystershell scale,
Lepidosaphes u1mi, have resulted in severe crown dieback
and even in the death of entire stands.
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.
Beech is seldom severely browsed by white-tailed deer.
When other, more desirable tree species are available,
beech is usually nipped only sparingly. Complete pests
and disease info
here
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