| Mexican Beech | | Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. Modern classification has its roots in the system of Carolus Linnaeus, who grouped species according to shared physical characteristics. These groupings have been revised since Linnaeus to improve consistency with the Darwinian...
Scientific classification | | Kingdom: | Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta...
Plantae | | Division: | Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. The other seed plants are called gymnosperms; here the ovule is...
Magnoliophyta | | Class: | Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. Flowering plants or angiosperms that are not dicotyledonous are monocotyledonous: having one embryonic leaf. See How to distinguish a monocot from a dicot for other characteristics that separate these two large groups of...
Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Families included in the Kew list: Fagaceae - Beech family (including Nothofagaceae) Betulaceae - Birch family Corylaceae - Hazel family Ticodendraceae not included in the Kew list: Casuarinaceae - She-oak family Juglandaceae - Walnut family Rhoipteleaceae Myricaceae The Fagales are an order of flowering plants, including some of the best known trees...
Fagales | | Family: | Genera Castanea - Chestnuts Castanopsis Chrysolepis - Golden chinkapin Colombobalanus Fagus - Beeches Formanodendron Lithocarpus - Tanbark oaks Nothofagus - Southern beeches Quercus - Oaks Trigonobalanus The family Fagaceae, or beech family, is characterized by alternate leaves with pinnate venation, flowers in the form of catkins, and fruit in the form of nuts, one to seven...
Fagaceae | | Genus: | Species Fagus crenata - Japanese Beech Fagus engleriana - Chinese Beech Fagus grandifolia - American Beech Fagus hayatae - Taiwan Beech Fagus japonica - Japanese Blue Beech Fagus longipetiolata - South Chinese Beech Fagus lucida - Shining Beech Fagus mexicana - Mexican Beech or Haya Fagus orientalis - Oriental Beech Fagus sylvatica - European Beech Beech (Fagus) is a genus...
Fagus | | Species: | F. mexicana | | | In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. As the word binomial suggests, the scientific name of a species is formed by the combination of two terms: the genus name and the species epithet or descriptor. The first term (generic name) is always capitalized, while the...
Binomial name | Fagus mexicana Martínez | The Mexican Beech or Haya (Fagus mexicana) is a species of Species Fagus crenata - Japanese Beech Fagus engleriana - Chinese Beech Fagus grandifolia - American Beech Fagus hayatae - Taiwan Beech Fagus japonica - Japanese Blue Beech Fagus longipetiolata - South Chinese Beech Fagus lucida - Shining Beech Fagus mexicana - Mexican Beech or Haya Fagus orientalis - Oriental Beech Fagus sylvatica - European Beech Beech (Fagus) is a genus...
beech This article is about the ecological meaning of endemic. See also endemic (epidemiology). Endemic in biology and ecology means exclusively native to a place or biota. It is in contrast to any one of several terms meaning not native (e.g., adventive, exotic, alien, introduced, naturalized, non-native). However it...
endemic to northeastern The United Mexican States or Mexico ( Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or México; regarding the use of the variant spelling Méjico, see section The name below) is a country located in North America, bordered to the north by the United States of America, to the southeast by...
Mexico, where it occurs from southwest Other Mexican States Capital Ciudad Victoria Other major cities Tampico Area 79,384 km² Ranked 7th Population (2000 census) 2,747,110 Ranked 13th Governor (1999-2005) Tomás Yarrington Ruvalcaba (PRI) Federal Deputies (8) PRI = 6 PAN = 2 Federal Senators PRI = 2 PAN = 1 ISO 3166-2 Postal abbr...
Tamaulipas south to This article is about the Mexican state. For other uses of the name, see Hidalgo (disambiguation) Categories: Stub | Mexican states ...
Hidalgo and Puebla is the name of a city and a state in Mexico. This article is about the city. For the state, see: State of Puebla. Pueblas zócalo The city of Puebla – known more formally as Heróica Puebla de Zaragoza or less formally as La Angelópolis...
Puebla; it is restricted to high altitude A cloud forest is a tropical or subtropical montane forest characterized by a high incidence of low-level cloud cover, usually at the canopy level, promoting development of an abundance of vascular epiphytes. Categories: Stub ...
cloud forests in Mount Cook, a mountain in New Zealand A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. A mountain is generally much higher and steeper than a hill, but there is considerable overlap, and usage often depends on local custom. Some authorities define a mountain...
mountains. It is a Deciduous means temporary or tending to fall off (deriving from the Latin word decidere, to fall off). Deciduous plants, principally trees and shrubs, are those that lose their foliage for part of the year. In most cases, the foliage loss coincides with the incidence of winter in temperate or polar...
deciduous This article is about the biological organisms known as trees. For other meanings of the word see tree (disambiguation). The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. Though there is no set definition regarding minimum size, the...
tree, reaching heights of 25-40 m tall and up to 1 m trunk diameter. It is closely related to the Binomial name Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. The American beech is an important forest tree of the eastern United States east of the Great Plains, excluding the Florida peninsula, and of southeastern Canada. The leaves are dark green, simple and sparsely-toothed with small teeth. Petioles are short. The winter twigs are...
American Beech F. grandifolia, and is treated as a subspecies of it by some (particularly For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). The United States of America, also referred to as the United States, U.S.A., U.S., US, America¹, or the States, is a federal republic of fifty states, mostly in central North America. The U.S. has three land...
U.S.) authors (as Fagus grandifolia subsp. mexicana (Martínez) E. Murray); however, Mexican literature generally treats it as a distinct species. The This article is about the leaf, a plant organ. See Leaf (disambiguation) for other meanings. Fallen leaf of a maple. Note areas where chlorophyll (green) has been destroyed now appear yellow. In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is...
leaves are alternate, simple, with a slightly toothed margin, usually smaller than those of American Beech, 5-8 cm long and 3-5 cm broad. The BUD refers to: big ugly dish, a colloquial name for a satellite dish used to receive satellite television signals on the C band. Basic Underwater Demolition, a military specialization perfected by the U.S. Navy SEALs. BUD/S, a military term that refers to the U.S. Navy SEALs training...
buds are long and slender, 15-25 mm long and 2-3 mm thick. The Wildflowers A flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). The function of a flower is to produce seeds through sexual reproduction. For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation, and serve as the primary means by which individuals of a species...
flowers are small A male catkin on a willow Catkins, or aments, are slim, cylindrical flower clusters, wind- pollinated and without petals, that can be found in many plant families, including Betulaceae, Corylaceae, Fagaceae and Salicaceae. They contain unisexual flowers. Often one plant has only male catkins, while another has female, but it...
catkins which appear shortly after the leaves in spring. The This writeup is about biological seeds; for other meanings see Seed (disambiguation). A seed is the ripened ovule of gymnosperm or angiosperm plants. The importance of the seed relative to more primitive forms of reproduction and dispersal is attested to by the success of these two groups of plants in...
seeds are small triangular Hazelnuts from the Common Hazel A nut in botany is a one-seeded (rarely two) simple dry fruit in which the ovary wall or part of it becomes very hard (stony or woody) at maturity. Most nuts come from pistils with inferior ovaries (see flower) and all are indehiscent (do...
nuts 15-20 mm long and 7-10 mm wide at the base; there are two nuts in each cupule, maturing in the autumn 6-7 months after pollination. |