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Beech

Fagus sylvatica · Beech family (Fagaceae)

Smooth, silver-grey trunk, oval leaf with an untoothed wavy edge, and long, pointed, cigar-shaped buds.

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Not to be confused with

• Hornbeam: sharply double-toothed leaf and a fluted, ‘muscular’ trunk. Difference from hornbeam

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