Photo 2305631, (c) Jakob Fahr, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Jakob Fahr

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European Beech (Fagus sylvatica)

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jakob

Date

July 27, 2015 02:50 PM CEST

Description

Very impressive beech trees, which are several hundred years old. They are the remains of an old "Hutewald" - an agroforestry system fostering widely spaced oak and beech trees to produce acorns and beechnuts, which in turn fatten wild boar in autumn.

Some of them seemed to grow like Ficus bengalensis: branches bending down to the ground, re-rooting, and from there growing into another beech tree.

Check out these links (in German):
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urwald_Sababurg
www.nabu-hofgeismar.de/altkreis-hog/reinhardswald/urwald
www.nw-fva.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Sachgebiet/Waldnaturschutz_Naturwald/Jahrbuch10Urwald.pdf
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0418.1963.tb02901.x

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