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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:- |
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Beech |
Fagus sylvatica |
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). |
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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 |
Parks and Gardens (common as a woodland tree in Southern England, especially on the chalk; elsewhere mostly planted and in parks or shelter-belts) |
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Foliage in June |
Form in May |
Durmast Oak or Sessile Oak |
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. |
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Holm Oak (Evergreen Oak) |
Quercus Ilex |
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 |
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). |
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Flower in May |
Flowers |
Foliage from Chester on 20 May |
Form from Norfolk |
Pedunculate Oak |
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.). |
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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 |
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. |
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Male and Female Flowers |
Female Flower |
Juvenile Foliage from Merewith Wood on 2 May |
Form in July |
Turkey Oak |
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. |
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Trunk bark in September |
Acorn from West Malling Country Park in Kent in September |
Foliage in September |
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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. |
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Topic ................ Topic - Plant Photo Galleries
If the plant type below has flowers, then the first gallery will include the flower thumbnail in each month of 1 of 6 flower colour comparison pages of each plant in its subsidiary galleries Wild Flower is below The following is a complete hierarchical Plant Selection Process or Topic - Butterfly Wildlife on Plant Photo Gallery Wild Flower You can find the wild flower in one of the 23 Wild Flower Galleries or the Colour Wheel If you know which habitat it lives in, you know which family it belongs to, use you have seen its flower or seed, use you have seen its flower, use Comparison Pages containing Wild Flower Plants and Cultivated Plants in the Colour Wheel Gallery followed by all the Wild Flower Family Pages:- |
There are 180 families in the Wildflowers of the UK and they have been split up into 22 Galleries to allow space for up to 100 plants per gallery. Each plant named in each of the Wildflower Family Pages may have a link to:- its Plant Description Page in its Common Name in one of those Wildflower Plant Galleries and will have links to external sites to purchase the plant or seed in its Botanical Name, to see photos in its Flowering Months and to read habitat details in its Habitat Column. WILD FLOWER FAMILY |
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