{"id":252,"date":"2013-02-18T14:47:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T19:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/?p=252"},"modified":"2013-02-18T14:47:16","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T19:47:16","slug":"beech-trees-are-easy-to-see-in-the-woods-this-time-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/2013\/02\/18\/beech-trees-are-easy-to-see-in-the-woods-this-time-of-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Beech trees are easy to see in the woods this time of year"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Last<\/a>

Last year’s leaves are a beautiful tan color<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0This time of year is one of the best for seeing small American beech (Fagus grandifolia<\/i>) trees in forests in Central Indiana.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beeches tend to keep their light tan colored leaves throughout the winter.\u00a0 You can detect small trees in the woods as you drive along I-65 in southern Indiana or along US 31 to the north.\u00a0 These small trees are a hopeful sign that beech is replacing itself.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0On the Butler University campus we have lost several very large and very old trees in the last few years, trees we estimate to be over 300 years old.\u00a0 Forty percent of Witness Trees identified in surveys conducted in Marion County in the 1820s were beech.\u00a0 My recent surveys of forest remnants found less than 2 percent remaining, while there has been a great increase in sugar maple.\u00a0 Sugar maple is thought to be on the increase in some areas due to fire suppression.\u00a0 Lack of fire, a natural disturbance in presettlement forests, allows more sugar maples to establish and survive.\u00a0 Sugar maple is easily killed by fire.\u00a0 I have always wondered if loss of passenger pigeons affected seed dispersal and regeneration of beech.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>

A few tan leaves remain on the small beech tree in the center of the photo<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Nice<\/a>

Nice smooth gray bark of an American Beech tree with tan leaves still retained on the tree<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0This time of year is one of the best for seeing small American beech (Fagus grandifolia) trees in forests in Central Indiana.\u00a0 Beeches tend to keep their light tan colored leaves throughout the winter.\u00a0 You can detect small trees in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[119733,119735,119734],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-beech","tag-central-indiana-woods","tag-trees-in-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}