Young Woodland Beech Trees
by Yvonne Johnstone
Title
Young Woodland Beech Trees
Artist
Yvonne Johnstone
Medium
Photograph - Digitally Enhanced Photograph
Description
Beech woodland is shady and characterised by a dense carpet of fallen leaves and mast husks which prevent most woodland plants from growing. Only specialist shade-tolerant plants can survive beneath a beech canopy.
Beech woodland provides an important habitat for many butterflies.
Because beech trees live for so long, they provide gnarled and knotted habitats for many deadwood specialists, such as hole-nesting birds and wood-boring insects. The bark is often home to a variety of fungi, mosses and lichens.
The wood burns well and was traditionally used to smoke herring.
Beech is associated with femininity and is often considered the queen of British trees, where oak is the king.
In Celtic mythology, Fagus was the god of beech trees. The tree was thought to have medicinal properties and its leaves were boiled to make a poultice which was used to relieve swellings.
Forked beech twigs are also traditionally used for divining.
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