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Fagaceae
Fagus

not marked as a favorite taxon Fagus Linnaeus. Common name: Beech.

Key to Fagus

A genus of about 11 species, trees, of temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Our native trees belong to subgenus Fagus, section Grandifolia (Shen 1992; Jiang et al. 2022). Infrageneric classification follows Jiang et al. (2022).

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References: Cooper & Mercer (1977); Elias (1971a); Govaerts & Frodin (1998); Jiang et al. (2022); Kubitzki (1993g) In Kubitzki, Rohwer, & Bittrich (1993); Nixon (1997a) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (1997); Shen (1992); Stanford (1998). Show full citations.

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image #1 of Fagus© Keith Bradley | Fagus grandifolia var. grandifolia | Original Image ⭷
image #2 of Fagus© Keith Bradley | Fagus grandifolia var. caroliniana | Original Image ⭷
image #3 of Fagus© Keith Bradley | Fagus grandifolia var. caroliniana
image #4 of Fagus© Erik Danielson | Fagus sylvatica source
image #5 of Fagus© Alaina Krakowiak, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Alaina Krakowiak | Fagus grandifolia var. caroliniana source | Original Image ⭷

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