The Beech is the latest addition to our collection of videos about trees, presented by ecologist Dr Markus Eichhorn. See them all at www.test-tube.o...
i just did my first woodworking project utilising beech. it is fantastic stuff. hard and strong but very very easy to work. its as hard as red oak but it chisels and planes smoothly and easily. it has a somewhat plain figure but i like its slightly warm color. i built a plane but i want to explore it further because i had such a wonderful time working it. i live in canada and its all conifers where i am so i came to here to see the tree. thanks for info!
As I watching this, next to me is 10 young 20cm beeches in pot which I planted month ago. When they will be around 1 meter, they will go to the forest :)
I was walking around ashridge woods when I heard things falling to the ground. I then realised the trees were shedding their nuts. The nuts were falling every few seconds. This lasted a few days. Each tree sheds thousands of nuts and this is how baby beech trees are made.
Cheer~~~~a large tree with smooth gray bark, glossy leaves, and hard, pale, fine-grained timber. Its fruit, the beechnut, is an important food for numerous wild birds and mammals.
i just woke up, bleary eyed , and as usual checked for new vids, saw the beech tree one, then squinted in surprise upon seeing what i thought was someone hanged from the tree at the start, but it only turned out to be the nottingham castle icon - whew!!!
The husks left behind from this tree is a miserable time if you have to clean them up. They have sharp edges on them and fall by what seems to be the thousands. I have a beautiful monstrous beech tree that I have a love/hate relationship with. I really wish it wasn't in my back yard. It makes a terrible mess. And come fall the tree is so stubborn to relinquish its leaves. I'm up in the Northeastern part of the US. This tree holds its leaves well into December. If it wasn't so beautiful I would have cut down by now. I still may. Not a fan.
This looks very different to the beech trees in NZ. I took a look on wikipedia and didn't find anything like what we have under the name "Beech tree". So did some searching and found that the NZ beech is the "Black Beech", or "Nothofagus solandri". There's actually a few varieties here according to bushmansfriend (nz website), but black beech was the one I recognised. Although I could have also casually seen the "hard beech" and not realised that it's different.
Love these tree videos! I wish you would do Osage Orange. Or maybe when you guys travel, you could look for more exotic trees; I would love to see a video on Ebony.
This was truly an amazing and greatly enjoyable video; can't wait to check out the rest. =) Though, I have to ask, is it bad to carve names into a tree, after all? I think one shouldn't, but I'm confused if it really hurts the tree or not...
I've never seen beech trees that big before! They sure grow 'em large in the British Isles. I like these videos that delve into native flora and fauna.
i love beech treas thares a few great beech trees on my regular dog walks aswell as looking beutiful they offer great shade when it rains 😊 and a few of my guns has beech wood stocks very durable and preety when stained 👍
Thanks for enlightening me about beech trees! I only recently identified that many of the trees growing on a slope of less than perfect soil behind my townhouse are beech. They're quite tall and yes pretty much nothing grows underneath them. Because it slopes downward behind my house many of the main part of the trees with all the branches and leaves are at eye level, quite impressive.
Sadly we just cut down 150 year old beech. It was my favorite tree. They have so much personality. I saved some seeds and will try to grow them, just for my own satisfaction. The woods here have many baby beech which I imagine will now get their chance to spread their wings and show what they're made of. But mostly I want to try to grow trees from the mother we cut down.
I just saved a baby one of these from my church's basement well. I had 3 in my yard where I was born and raised. They where huge as it was once all woods. Can these trees be topped as babies and kept short?
I think it is ingrained in us (no pun intended) to write on beech trees - the word beech and book are often considered synonymous in proto-Germanic and tablets of beech were used to write on before paper was used.
I bought my first property 5 acres where I plan to build a small house in a few years. Got several dozen American Beech trees, young to old, love them. Thanks for the video!
I love a beech tree and I love that video. I found mine years ago at a little plant shop and I thought it was going to be huge like the ones in England. It was a small stick leaning against their fence with a "Beech Tree" tag on it. But it grew into a small, copper beech tree. That was so many years ago. It would have been huge by now. Wasn't meant to be. It feels like a magic tree to me with its black, crooked branches and its dark brown leaves. And my brother sits near it in the summer and he bent a branch backwards so a pointy seed or leaf couldn't poke him in the eye. The birds love the seeds. I had to put the branch back to its normal position. A tree is just a tree to him.
The beech is so wonderfu.l We did not have them in the Louisiana woodlands which are wonderful too with magnolias, pines, bays, many species of oak and sweetgum trees. ..
Nic B first put them somewhere cool 3-5 Celsius for six weeks then put them in a container with sand paper and spin them around then put them in a warm moist not wet paper towel and place somewhere warm with moderate humidity once the root grows out place them in spot full if soil place the seeds near the top of the soil then add leaves on top after a week remove a bit of the soil that is on top of the seed and it will germinate overnight and make sure to keep it watered 😊
I do feel sorry for beech tree, putting a graffiti or vandal not really good thing to do! you taking an advantage to a tree for your simple pleasure........=(
