Fagus grandifolia
Details
| Common Name | American Beech |
|---|---|
| Genus | Fagus |
| Species | grandifolia |
The American Beech Fagus grandifolia is a species of beech native to eastern North America. It is a deciduous tree growing to 20-35 m tall, with smooth, silvery-gray bark. The tree is monoecious, with flowers of both sexes on the same tree. Beech Bark Disease has become a major killer of Beeches in the Northeastern United States. American Beech is an important tree in forestry, and is sometimes planted as an ornamental tree.
Beeches suffer from beech bark disease which causes significant mortality and defect in American beech. The disease results when bark, attacked and altered by the beech scale, Cryptococcus fagisuga Lind., is invaded and killed by fungi, primarily Nectria coccinea var. faginata Lohman, Watson, and Ayers, and sometimes N. galligena Bres.
Download American Beech 454 sequences in fasta format (16Mb)
The current types of data available for this organism:
| EST | 64,603 |
| contig | 23,668 |
| microsatellite | 2,664 |
| point_mutation | 1,231 |