Beech

Family: Beeches. Beeches are deciduous or evergreen trees, less often shrubs. Leaves simple, alternate, less often opposite or whorled, entire, toothed or pinnately lobed, with caducous stipules.

Description: In appearance and biological characteristics it occupies among deciduous species the same place as the spruce does among conifers. In the density of the canopy and shade tolerance it is not inferior to spruces and firs.

Slim, powerful, light-gray, smooth, highly cleared of branches trunks form in plantings a majestic colonnade, within which gloom and silence prevail. When standing alone, thanks to widely spread branches and dense foliage, they form a spreading, dense canopy through which not even the rays of the southern sun penetrate.

They respond well to pruning and shaping and can be used to create tall hedges, walls and topiary forms.