These bears will climb up the trees and create nest-like twig formations in the branches by shoving sticks underneath themselves to support their weight while consuming large amounts of beech-nuts.

The forest will be totally different,” he said. Beech trees, which grow beech nuts, are an important food for bears and deer. Beech is not typically used for timber because it’s already ...

Similar to American beech, the fruit (a beech nut) is a small nut borne in burrs with soft spines. European beech trees do not begin to produce beech nuts until they are roughly 40 years of age.

The Common Beech ( Fagus sylvatica) is our November Tree of the Month. Beautiful yellows and browns appear as the season ...

Known for being one of the few trees with white bark, the Beech tree (Fagus sylvatica) has a broad canopy and a variety of ...

The idea of trees "talking" to one another through underground fungal networks—the so-called "wood wide web"—has captured the ...

An assisted migration of beech trees in need of protection from ... and German sides over the course of 10 months. Oak acorns and beechnuts from remarkable specimens have been collected in ...