Fagus sylvatica
(common beech)

Preferred Common Name

• common beech

Other Scientific Names

• Castanea fagus Scop.
• Fagus hohenackeriana Palib.
• Fagus intermedia nov. spec. col.
• Fagus macrophylla Koidz.
• Fagus moesiaca (K. Maly) Czeczott
• Fagus moesiaca K. Maly
• Fagus orientalis Lipsky
• Fagus silvatica var. asiatica D.C.
• Fagus silvestris Gaertn.
• Fagus taurica Popl.
• Fagus winkleriana Koidz.

International Common Names

• English: European beech; oriental beech
• Spanish: cascojo; faig; haya; haya
• French: fau; fayard; foyard; hetre; hêtre asiatique; hêtre commun; hêtre d'orient
• Russian: buk
• Arabic: zan
• Chinese: ou zhou shan mao ju

Local Common Names

• Denmark: bög
• Germany: Buche; Gemeine Buche; Orientalische Buche; Rot- Buche; Rotbuche
• Greece: oxya
• Iran: raasch
• Italy: faggio; faggio orientale
• Netherlands: beuk; beuken
• Poland: buk zwyczajny
• Sweden: Bok; boken; rädbok
• Turkey: gülgen ag; gürgen ag; kayin ag; kaym

EPPO code

• FAUMO (Fagus moesiaca)
• FAUSO (Fagus sylvatica subsp. orientalis)
• FAUSY (Fagus sylvatica)

Subspecies

• Fagus sylvatica nothosubsp. moesiaca
• Fagus sylvatica subsp. orientalis
• Fagus sylvatica subsp. sylvatica
• Fagus sylvatica subsp. sylvatica var. dawyk
• Fagus sylvatica subsp. sylvatica var. pendula

Trade name

• aceite de haya
• alquitrán de haya
• beech nut
• beech tar
• beech wood
• beech-oil
• bois de hêtre
• buchecker
• Buchenholz
• buchenteer
• buchöl
• faine
• goudron de bois de hêtre
• hayuco
• huile de faines
• madera de haya

• Domain: Eukaryota
•     Kingdom: Plantae
•         Phylum: Spermatophyta
•             Subphylum: Angiospermae
•                 Class: Dicotyledonae
•                     Order: Fagales
•                         Family: Fagaceae
•                             Genus: Fagus
•                                 Species: Fagus sylvatica

Major host of:

Agrilus sulcicollis; Apiognomonia errabunda (anthracnose); Cherry leaf roll virus (walnut ringspot); Cryptococcus fagisuga (beech coccus); Diaporthe eres (apple leaf, branch and fruit fungus); Fomes fomentarius (hoof fungus); Lymantria monacha (nun moth); Mikiola fagi; Phytophthora cambivora (root rot of forest trees); Phytophthora pseudosyringae; Pythium ultimum (black-leg of seedlings); Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis (evergreen bagworm); Tremex fuscicornis (Tremex wasp); Xylosandrus germanus (black timber bark beetle)

Minor host of:

Anoplophora chinensis (black and white citrus longhorn); Armillaria mellea (armillaria root rot); Armillaria ostoyae (armillaria root rot); Bean yellow mosaic virus (bean yellow mosaic); Cydia splendana (chestnut tortrix moth); Euproctis chrysorrhoea (brown-tail moth); Fomitopsis pinicola (brown crumbly rot); Gibberella avenacea (Fusarium blight); Heterobasidion abietinum; Heterobasidion annosum; Hylobius abietis (large pine weevil); Lymantria dispar (gypsy moth); Malacosoma neustria (common lackey); Melolontha melolontha (white grub cockchafer); Neonectria ditissima (Nectria canker (apple, pear)); Operophtera brumata (winter moth); Orgyia antiqua (European tussock moth); Otiorhynchus armadillo (armadillo weevil); Phyllactinia guttata (powdery mildew of hardwood trees); Phytophthora cactorum (apple collar rot); Phytophthora gonapodyides; Phytophthora hedraiandra; Phytophthora kernoviae; Phytophthora ramorum (Sudden Oak Death (SOD)); Scolytus intricatus (European oak bark beetle)

Wild host of:

Adoxophyes orana (summer fruit tortrix); Eutypa lata (Eutypa dieback); Orthosia cerasi (common quaker); Pratylenchus penetrans (nematode, northern root lesion); Rhododendron ponticum (rhododendron); Xiphinema diversicaudatum (dagger nematode); Xyleborinus saxesenii (fruit-tree pinhole borer); Xyleborus dispar (pear blight beetle)

Associated with (not a host):

Acer pseudoplatanus (sycamore); Pleurotus ostreatus (oyster mushroom)

Host of (source - data mining):

Aceria stenaspis; Agriopis aurantiaria; Agriopis marginaria; Altica quercetorum; Amphipyra pyramidea (copper underwing); Anoplophora glabripennis (Asian longhorned beetle); Antheraea pernyi; Armillaria gallica; Botrytis cinerea (damping-off); Caliroa annulipes; Calliteara pudibunda (hop, dog); Cephalcia arvensis; Chaetomium globosum (antagonist of Venturia); Cladosporium herbarum; Colletotrichum fioriniae; Cryptodiaporthe salicina; Cydia fagiglandana (beech seed moth); Diurnea fagella; Erannis defoliaria (mottled umber moth); Fusarium arthrosporioides (root rot: pea); Fusarium oxysporum (basal rot); Ganoderma pfeifferi; Gibberella intricans (damping-off of safflower); Hartigiola annulipes; Heterobasidion parviporum; Hylesinus varius (ash bark beetle); Isotoma notabilis; Isotomiella minor; Kretzschmaria deusta (canker of beech); Mucor circinelloides (post-harvest rot); Neonectria coccinea (bark disease: beech); Operophtera fagata; Phalera bucephala (buff tip moth); Phyllaphis fagi (beech, aphid); Phyllonorycter maestingella; Phytomyza ranunculi; Phytophthora (foot rot); Phytophthora citricola (black hop root rot); Phytophthora plurivora; Phytophthora quercina; Popillia japonica (Japanese beetle); Rhagium mordax; Rhynchaenus fagi (weevil, beech flea); Schizophyllum commune (wood rot); Sinodendron cylindricum; Tetranychus urticae (two-spotted spider mite); Trametes versicolor (wood decay); Trypodendron domesticum; Uraba lugens (eucalypt leaf skeletonizer)