15 Facts About Beech

Beech is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia and North America.

Beech wood makes excellent firewood, easily split and burning for many hours with bright but calm flames.

Beech logs are burned to dry the malt used in some German smoked beers.

Beech is used to smoke Westphalian ham, andouille sausage, and some cheeses.

Beech is not native to Ireland; however, it was widely planted from the 18th century, and can become a problem shading out the native woodland understory.

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Beech grows on a wide range of soil types, acidic or basic, provided they are not waterlogged.

Beech blight aphid is a common pest of American beech trees.

Beech bark disease is a fungal infection that attacks the American beech through damage caused by scale insects.

Beech leaf disease is a disease spread by the newly discovered nematode, Litylenchus crenatae mccannii.

Beech wood is an excellent firewood, easily split and burning for many hours with bright but calm flames.

Beech logs are burned to dry the malt used in German smoked beers.

Beech is used to smoke Westphalian ham, traditional andouille from Normandy, and some cheeses.

Beech wood is used for the stocks of military rifles when traditionally preferred woods such as walnut are scarce or unavailable or as a lower-cost alternative.

Beech litter raking as a replacement for straw in animal husbandry was an old non-timber practice in forest management that once occurred in parts of Switzerland in the 17th century.

Beech has been listed as one of the 38 plants whose flowers are used to prepare Bach flower remedies.