The beech (Fagus sylvatica var. Suentelensis clip (1903) syn. Fagus sylvatica var. Tortuosa want-come (1887)) is a rare of the red beech (Fagus sylvatica).

beeches impress by their rotated, crippled, with one another deformed branches and very short, trunks. They grow more into the width than up. They reach only rarely a height of over 15 meters. With its down-hanging branches the tent something similar trains, hemisphere or mushroom-shaped crowns. The stature form is hereditary, their emergence however still unsettled.

Etymologie

The name beech comes from the occurrences in the in the Weser mountain country into Niedersachsen.Die is well-known depending upon location under different botanischen names, like Tortuosa, Suntalensis or Suentelensis and popular names, like ruffle beech, beech, screen beech, queue beech or setting right beech. In former times one called it also witch wood or devil beech, because one regarded her as verwunschen or from the devil spoiled. To the non-uniform naming above all the many variation options of its stature form contribute. (See: Kind of collecting)

Spreading

In the a small north of Hameln in Lower Saxony, there were to center 19. Century the largest Europe. In the course of the Verkoppelung 1843 became the entire surface, which gerodet 245 m high Westeregge between and Raden. At that time the number of the sank in Germany of some thousands on under one hundred. Only at approximately 50 locations today still individual old copies or small groups of trees stand. They were supplemented in the last decades by numerous new planting.

The largest beeches of Germany stand in Gremsheim at the jack with bath Gandersheim (Naturdenkmal "„head beech "“) and in Lauenau at the Deister. In bath nominal village at the Deister gives it a out approximately to 100 trunks, about which two thirds from root brood developed.

Smaller groups of older beeches still exist in France tortillard "“), Denmark ("„Vrange "“) and Sweden ("“Vresboken"”). Younger trees are to be found meanwhile in many parks and Botani gardens of Europe and the USA.

In the forest southeast from Verzy, 25 km from Reims (France), after a counting of 1977, a large existence of 668 beeches was ("„Faux de Verzy "“). The number was since then easily reduced. The most beautiful copies are released and on a round way in a park-similar area become the tourist attraction enclosed from competition. The homeland federation Lower Saxony registered association operates a beech reservation in bath of mouths. There young beeches can grow up protected.

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