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Fagus hohenackeriana
Also called Oriental Beech, Turkish Beech
Caucasian beech is a large deciduous forest tree from the Caucasus and northeastern Turkey, closely related to Oriental beech and only recently recognised as a separate species. It is grown mainly as a shade or landscape tree in cool, moist climates.
Fagus hohenackeriana, the Caucasian beech, is a deciduous tree in the family Fagaceae. It is native to the Caucasus region on the borders of the extreme southeast of Europe and western Asia, from northeastern Turkey east to Azerbaijan and north to southernmost European Russia. Although first noted as distinct and described in 1908 by the Russian botanist Ivan Palibin, it was until recently universally regarded as a synonym of Fagus orientalis (Oriental beech), until a major genetic study discovered it was distinct. Its treatment as a distinct species has been accepted by the Plants of the World Online database.
It occurs in moist mountain habitats, often mixed with Abies nordmanniana.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fagus hohenackeriana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
