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| Beech Fagus sylvatica (red) |
| Tree & Flower Facts: Beech trees are deciduous trees with flowers that are produced in the spring shortly after the new leaves appear. The fruit is a small, sharply 3-angled nut known as cupules. The nuts are edible, though bitter with a high tannin content, that are often called beechmast. The beech is commonly grown as an ornamental tree, but is also widely used for timber, as an easy-to-work utility wood. The root system is shallow, even superficial, with large roots spreading out in all directions. A beech forest is very dark and few species of plant are able to survive there because the sun barely reaches the ground. The nuts are an important food for birds, rodents and in the past also people, although they are no longer eaten by man. Slightly toxic to man if eaten in large quantities due to the tannins they contain, the nuts were nonetheless pressed to obtain an oil in 19th century England that was used for cooking and in lamps. They were also ground to make flour, which could be eaten after the tannins were leached out by soaking. |
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| Tree & Flower Meanings: Acceptance, Environment, Forgiveness, and Tolerance |
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| Bloom and Blossom - Root and Grow: The Beech tree helps transform the tendency to be critical due to an inner sense of inferiority and hypersensitivity which is projected onto others. Very often such persons grew up in an environment of criticism and harsh expectation, and so they inwardly feel very vulnerable and insecure. However, they learn to cope by condemning others instead of healing themselves. Another characteristic of the Beech type has a hypersensitivity to personal environments, both physical and social. Their permeability to the influences around them leads to intolerance of imperfection in others. Beech softens the soul pain such persons feel; as they re-establish connection with their higher Self, they sense the love and unconditional acceptance that radiates from the spiritual world. Through the warmth of soul, they are able to let go of their harsh and blaming ways, to accept others in the same way that they are accepted by the spiritual world. The color that represents Beech is red. The positive qualities of Beech are: Tolerance, acceptance of others' differences and imperfections, seeing the good within each person and situation; and ability to offer praise to others. |
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