Beech | Fagus sylvatica
To the right of the former school building is a gigantic beech tree with a trunk circumference of no less than 3.5 metres.
Beech trees are native to the Netherlands and belong to the so-called nap bearer family: the fruit is protected by a nap. Incidentally, beech trees do not want to grow everywhere. The tree occurs in the final stage of forest development. The soil should be moist and well-drained. The water table should not be too high, but not too dry either. Beech lives in symbiosis with a fungus. This means that without the fungus, the tree has difficulty growing. Beech trees can grow to be large, with 35 metres being no exception in forests! Due to its acid leaves and dense crown, little will grow under a beech tree. Beech forests are therefore very open.
