ZONE:
4
HEIGHT:
18-25 m
SPREAD:
16-20 m
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Fagus grandifolia - American Beech
ZONE:
4
HEIGHT:
18-25 m
SPREAD:
16-20 m
American beech tree at maturity is ideal for large spaces such as lawns, parks and naturalized areas.
While very valuable to biodiversity, Fagus grandiflora plants are threatened by Beech Bark Disease, and the new Beech Leaf Disease.
Native to Ontario and parts of North America.
In mature trees, female flowers give way to triangular nuts enclosed in spiny bracts. Beech nuts ripen in the fall and are edible, for human beings and many birds, and small and large mammals, and in the wild, especially black bears.. Larval host for more than 100 species of moths and butterflies, including the rare Early Hairstreak Butterfly. The flowers are wind-pollinated.
