Scientific Name:	Fagus sylvatica
Pronunciation:	FAY-gus sil-VAT-ih-kuh
Common Name:	European beech
Family Name:	Fagaceae
Plant Type:	Tree - deciduous
Key ID Features:	Leaves alternate, deltoid to ovate, glossy with margins entire, undulate, and often ciliate; fruit capsule-like, brown, bristly. Winter ID: buds 2cm+ long, pointed, spear-like, divergent, brown; bark smooth, silver-grey, with a horizontal pattern (like an elephant's leg).
Course(s):	AARB 1012, HORT 1155, Level 1 Apprenticeship, CLT Training

Habit: Spreading Form: Oval - horizontal, Oval - vertical, Round Texture: Medium Mature Size: Height: 22 - 30m Spread: 15 - 25m Growth Rate: Moderate Origin: Europe Hardiness Rating: Zone 5: (-29 to -23 C) Exposure: Full sun Soil/ Growing Medium: Alkaline, Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained Water Use: Moderate Landscape Uses: Fall interest, Hedge row, Herb, Screening, Sheared hedge, Specimen plant, Topiary, Wildlife food, Wind break Additional Info: Google. Note: see separate entries for cultivars on campus. A popular large, green, weeping form is F. 'Bornyensis'.

Leaf Morphology: Form: Simple Arrangement: Alternate Texture/ Venation: Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Soft flexible Surfaces: Glandular hairs, Lustrous Colour in Fall: Green, Red Leaf(let) Terms: Shapes: Elliptic, Ovate Apices: Acute Bases: Cuneate Margins: Ciliate, Entire, Undulate (wavy)

Inflorescence Type: Catkin (ament) Flower Morphology: Monoecious plant Number of Petals: 0 Ovary Position: Inferior Colour (petals): Not showy, Green-yellow Flower Scent: None Flower Time at Peak: Apr, May

Fruit Type: Nut Fruit Colour: Brown Fruiting Time: Sep, Oct Additional Info: Showy, Edible, 3-angled nuts from compound ovary enclosed in prickly bracts that split open like a capsule

Bark Morphology: Smooth Bark or Stem Colour: Grey, Brown     Leaf Bud Type: Narrowly conical Leaf Scar Shape: U-shaped Organ Modifications: Ectomycorrhizae, Ectomycorrhizal with species of Amanita, Boletus, Cantharellus, Hebeloma and Lactarius.

Propagation:	Seed, Hardwood cuttings, Grafting
Pest Susceptibility:	Pest resistant, Disease resistant, Rodents
Specific Pests:	Woolly beech aphids, tent caterpillars.

Location(s): (BHE) Boulevard by Hwy. 10 Eastend : 52 (ONE) Overpass North side East Location Map

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