* up to 1, 300 m: Carpathian beech forest ; almost no shrub layer, herb layer occupies most of the forest floor

Forests cover about 14 % of the county, mainly around major waterways, and consist principally of deciduous hardwoods among which maple – beech and oak – hickory forests are the most common.

Forests cover about 23 % of the county, or about, and consist principally of deciduous hardwoods among which maple – beech and oak – hickory forests are the most common.

The municipality boasts 35 kilometers of predominantly sandy beach in the south, beech woods to the north, and in between one of the most fertile soils in the world.

The most commonly encountered forest type is the Hainsimsen beech forest.

Some drums are made from beech, which has a tone between those of maple and birch, the two most popular drum woods.

The most northern known naturally growing ( not planted ) beech trees are found in a few very small forests around the city of Bergen on the west coast of Norway with the North Sea nearby.

In the north, it forms associations of beech-maple and sugar maple-yellow birch, which is most important beyond the northern limit of beech.

The abundance of Western Capercaillie depends-like in most other species-on habitat quality, it is highest in sun-flooded open, old mixed forests with spruce, pine, fir and some beech with a rich ground cover of Vaccinium species.

Most of it is covered in forest that has been undisturbed for decades, and even centuries, with the result that its oak and beech woods are among the most untouched and impressive in Germany, and the island boasts a rich diversity of birds and small mammals.

There is relatively little mature ancient woodland remaining as most was cleared mainly during the 18th century and given over to beech plantation connected with the furniture making industry in High Wycombe.

At the time of settlement, most of the county was covered in temperate deciduous forest ; the dominant forest trees included maple, hemlock, oak and beech.

They also declared most of the volcanic cones and the Fageda d ' en Jordà ( a beech woods rooted in lava ) to be Integral Geobotanical Reserves.

The buds, unlike those of the beech, are 10 mm long at the most, and pressed close to the twig.

Light-coloured hardwoods such as sycamore, basswood, beech and birch are most commonly used, as their fine grain is not obtrusive.

Although the dominant Lenga beech ( Nothofagus pumilio ) forest can regenerate from stumps, most of the newly created beaver wetlands are being colonized by the rarer native Antarctic beech ( Nothofagus antarctica ).

Wallace wrote most of the book in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where his favorite place was underneath a beech tree ( since called the Ben-Hur Beech ) near his house.

The town is the northern most area in Japan where the beech tree grows naturally and as such the beech tree has been designated natural treasure.

Thus, the beech marten differs from most other European mustelids of the Quaternary, as all other species ( save for the European mink ) appeared during the Middle Pleistocene.

Other trees commonly mistaken for the chestnut tree are the chestnut oak ( Quercus prinus ) and the American beech ( Fagus grandifolia ).

Many species of oak, chestnut, and beech ( genera Quercus, Castanea, and Fagus respectively ) are commonly used as timber for floors, furniture, cabinets, and wine barrels.

Some other woods commonly used to make bachi are ( Japanese names in parentheses ): maple ( 楓, kaede ), pine ( 松, matsu ), cypress ( 檜, hinoki ), magnolia ( 朴, hou / hō ), beech ( 椈, buna ) and bamboo ( 竹, take ).

In southern Britain, coppice was traditionally hazel, hornbeam, beech, ash or oak, grown amongst oak or sometimes ash or beech standards.

At its height there were around 12 factories specialising in brush made from locally grown beech with bristles imported mainly from across Asia.

One beech tree has grown on a medieval enclosure, the purposes of which enclosure is unknown because only three of its sides are visible.

In the short coastal strip citrus fruits, vine and olives are grown, while at high elevations the vegetation is composed mostly by oak and holm oak under the 1, 000 m, and by pine, Sicilian fir and beech over it.

When infecting ornamental trees like maples, elms, aspen, ash, beech, catalpa, oak and others, the first symptoms are midsummer wilting on one side of a tree or branch.

Major collections include maple ( Acer ), birch ( Betula ), hickory ( Carya ), beech ( Fagus ), ash ( Fraxinus ), honeylocust ( Gleditsia ), magnolia ( Magnolia ), ornamental crabapple ( Malus ), oak ( Quercus ), linden ( Tilia ) and elm ( Ulmus ).

Their headresses contain tree leaves ( populus | poplar and beech ), fern s and honeysuckle.

The temperate forest ecoregions of southwestern South America, including the temperate rain forests of the Valdivian temperate rain forests and Magellanic subpolar forests ecoregions, and the Juan Fernández Islands and Desventuradas Islands, are a refuge for the ancient Antarctic flora, which includes trees like the southern beech ( Nothofagus ), podocarps, the alerce ( Fitzroya cupressoides ), and Araucaria pines like the monkey-puzzle tree ( Araucaria araucana ).

The Shirakami Mountains are located in eastern Aomori and contain the last of the virgin beech tree forest which is home to over 87 species of birds.

Birch is a broadleaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula ( Bé-tu-la ), in the family Betulaceae which also includes alders, hazels and hornbeams and is closely related to the beech / oak family, Fagaceae.

The American chestnut ( Castanea dentata ) is a large, deciduous tree of the beech family native to eastern North America.

The name ' buckwheat ' or ' beech wheat ' comes from its triangular seeds, which resemble the much larger seeds of the beech nut from the beech tree, and the fact that it is used like wheat.

Piglet lives in a " very grand house in the middle of a beech tree " in the Hundred Acre Wood, next to a sign which says " TRESPASSERS W ".

Ancient pollarded beech tree in Epping Forest, Essex, England

He carved his initials on a beech tree along with the date, March 1, 1801.

They are still notable for their collection of trees ( specimens include a holm oak, silver pendent lime, tulip tree, golden yew, purple beech, cedar of Lebanon, ginkgo, giant redwood, tree of heaven, incense cedar, Corsican pine, magnolia and a rare Chinese gutta-percha ) and they still contain a number of vestigial curiosities from the past ( notably an 18th-century ‘ cowshed ’ set into the remnants of the Royalist earthworks of 1642, and a sculpture of Warden Bowra ).

Among the people who came to hunt the animal trails was Daniel Boone, who reportedly carved his name and the year, 1775, into a beech tree in a nearby community.

The town nestles between beautiful beech tree forests just 6 km from the Baltic Sea and is one of the earliest German settlements in Mecklenburg.

From the edge of the Harz to 700 m above sea level beech woods dominate, especially the Wood-Rush beech woods on locations poorly supplied with nutrients where the common beech ( Fagus sylvatica ) is often the only tree species.

Since the beech tree has such delicate bark, carvings, such as lovers ' initials and other forms of graffiti, remain because the tree is unable to heal itself.

Shortly after the tree is infected by the beech scale insects, it is possible for the beech tree to die.