beeches, oaks, walnuts, and allies
Fagales
The Fagales are an order of flowering plants, including some of the best-known trees. The order name is derived from genus Fagus, beeches. They belong among the rosid group of dicotyledons. The families and genera currently included are as follows:
7 branches of this order, most-observed first
beech family
familyFagaceae
birch family
familyBetulaceae
walnut family
familyJuglandaceae
wax trees and shrubs
familyMyricaceae
Sheoaks
familyCasuarinaceae
Southern Beeches
familyNothofagaceae
ticodendron family
familyTicodendraceae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47853.