beech tree is superior to all other breeds in hardness, so the ancient Druids, it is considered a symbol of strength and indestructibility.According to the sign of the people, beech tree manages the day of the winter solstice.It is in December, about 21 minutes or 22 minutes per day, depending on the characteristics of the year.Mission born in these days of people is to establish and maintain a clear order.
beech tree in the plant world is a relative of another robust fellow, whom Russian folklore likes to compare the strong and hardy people - oak.Czechs Opinion on this issue a little bit different.For them, a powerful and slim beech tree - the standard of strength and beauty.And argue with that is not necessary.
Let's turn our attention to the height and width, which reaches the beech tree.Photography applied to the article, is well demonstrated his greatness.Suffice it to say that it reaches a height of forty meters, and expand in his long, extending to four hundred years old and older life, it can up to two meters or more.Its trunk thickens continuously, regardless of age.At the same time he continues to grow up to eighty years, and maturity comes sixty, when it starts fruiting.However, in cases where the beech tree grows in isolation, the properties associated with procreation, he begins to exhibit before.Then it can be seen in nuts forty or twenty years.
they ripen prickly boxes.The seeds have a three-edged form.Taste them very pleasant, reminiscent of pine nucleoli.Only forest dwellers know that there beechnuts should be with caution.Their seed is covered with a thin film containing the poison, so they are collected in the forest and are home, where after a simple heat treatment - on the heated frying pan - devours for both cheeks, because it is a highly and healthy product.In addition, they are delicious!
If we went to talk about reproduction, it is appropriate to add that the first flowers appear on the beech in the late spring.First male flowers bloom.Women's - about a week.Pollen beech sticky, so heavy.She was picked up by wind and transferred to the pistils of female flowers.After pollination, the nuts develop slowly, until the autumn.Then the tree carefully strews the ground of its foliage.And this litter dumps fruit.A top covers them like a blanket, a new layer of fallen leaves.Since peanuts are saved from frosts and winter in comfort.
In the Middle Ages in Western Europe is often difficult and famine.To save people from death beechnuts.Therefore, a well-known scholar of world renown named Carl Linnaeus in his work is a tree "Pete» (Fagus).And it is right.After beech feeds almost all the inhabitants of the wild.Through his nut to crack in winter and early spring, when a feed is difficult, saved from death not only all small rodents, such as rabbits, squirrels and wild boar, and deer, moose and bears.
Strong Krona this tree forms a leaf cover, covering an area of one thousand square meters and more, which makes it an excellent protection against dust and gas pollution, and excessive humidification, providing habitat clean and tidy.
