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Beech Family

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Beech Family:-

Beech Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Wild Flower Gallery:-

Common Name

Botanical Name

Flowering Months

Habitat

Beech

Fagus sylvatica

April-May

This is a large tree found on a wide variety of base-rich to acidic, free-draining soils. It grows in pure woodlands or as standard trees or pollards in wood pasture. It is widely planted outside its native range as woodland, in avenues and as hedges. 0-650 m S. of Garrigill (Cumberland).

Male Flower from Queensdown Warren in Kent on 13 May

Female Flower from Queensdown Warren in Kent on 13 May

Juvenile Foliage in Spring

Form from Copse in Dartmoor in May

Copper Beech or Purple Beech

Fagus sylvatica cuprea purpurea

April-May

Parks and Gardens (common as a woodland tree in Southern England, especially on the chalk; elsewhere mostly planted and in parks or shelter-belts)

Flower

Flowers

Foliage in June

Form in May

Durmast Oak or Sessile Oak

Quercus petraea

April-May, with the leaves

A long-lived, deciduous tree, forming high forest or coppice woodland, especially on well-drained, shallow, moderately to strongly acidic soils. It is the characteristic species of upland oakwoods. Seedlings of Quercus petraea may be more shade-tolerant than those of Quercus robur and is therefore more able to regenerate in woodland.

Holm Oak
(Holm oak is damaging biodiversity in the United Kingdom, and is listed as an alien invader. Normally the tree is unable to withstand frost, which would normally prevent it from spreading north, but with climate change, it has successfully penetrated these areas.).

(Evergreen Oak)

Quercus Ilex

April-May

An evergreen tree, planted in parks, large gardens, churchyards and cemeteries, and becoming well-established in copses, woodland and on sand dunes. It prefers light, warm soils, and is frequently planted near coasts. Seed production can be prolific, and it regenerates freely in parts of S. and E. England. Lowland.

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Male Flower in June

Female Flower in June

Foliage in June

Form from Decoy Farm on 15 May

Horse Chestnut (Introduced. Native of Albania and Greece)

Aesculus hippocastanum

May-June

A tree of parkland, large gardens and estates, churchyards, urban streets and village greens; also a constituent of deciduous and mixed woodland. It is sometimes self-sown in scrubby areas, waste ground or rough grassland, and occasionally regenerates in woodland, but is rarely fully naturalised. Generally lowland, but reaching 505 m at Ashgill (Cumberland).

Flower in May

Flowers

Foliage from Chester on 20 May

Form from Norfolk

Pedunculate Oak

Quercus robur

April-May, with the leaves

A long-lived, deciduous tree of high forest, coppice woodland and ancient wood-pasture. It grows on a wide range of soils, typically those which are heavy and fertile, but does not thrive on thin soils over limestone or acidic peat. It is fairly tolerant of waterlogging, growing at fen margins and in Alnus woodland. It is very widely planted in hedges and woodland. 0-450 m (Talgarth, Brecs.).

Male Flowers from Borough Green on 31 March

Female Flowers from Strood in Kent in June

Foliage from Borough Green in Kent on 4 September

Form from South Elmham in Suffolk in May

Sweet Chestnut or Spanish Chestnut

Castanea sativa

July

This deciduous tree is a major constituent of coppiced woodland in South-East England. It is also planted in hedgerows, wood-borders, parkland and amenity areas, and in large gardens. It tolerates a wide range of soils, but thrives on moist, sandy soils. Seed is set freely in the south, but seedlings rarely reach maturity. 0-410 m (Fern Hill, Rads.

Male and Female Flowers

Female Flower

Juvenile Foliage from Merewith Wood on 2 May

Form in July

Turkey Oak

Quercus cerris

April-May, with the leaves

A deciduous tree planted in woodlands, town parks, estates, large gardens and along roads, especially on acidic, sandy soils. It seeds freely, and has become naturalised on free-draining soils in other habitats including railway embankments and waste ground, spreading into calcareous grassland and heathland. Lowland.

Trunk bark in September

Acorn from West Malling Country Park in Kent in September

Foliage in September

Form

Graphocephala coccinea ia a meadow and woodland-dwelling species of brightly-coloured leafhopper native to North and Central America, from Canada south to Panama. Common names include candy-striped leafhopper, red-banded leafhopper, scarlet-and-green leafhopper and red-and-blue leafhopper.

Leafhoppers feed on plant sap with the aid of specialized mouthparts. This leafhopper is a vector in leaf scorch caused by "Pierce's disease". This disease is responsible for the decline of certain woody plants such as elm, oak and other ornamental trees.

Rhododendron leaf-hopper bug (Graphocephala coccinea) from Bedgebury on 15 October 1966.