“The beech trees towered above us, their smooth gray bark and serrated oval leaves creating a picture-perfect landscape.”

“Here there's a nice 1898 Arts and Crafts style house, sheltered by beech copses with kettle nest boxes and carpeted yellow by winter aconites.”

“Children can look out for other large tree seeds such as beech masts and acorns which can be sown in the same way as the conkers.”

“There are 72 in all, with big beechwood bedheads and furniture, white-tiled bathrooms and flowers everywhere.”

“The beechwood surround and chrome bezels add a touch of 1960s authenticity.”

“If you're feeling adventurous, go for a rauchbier, a German-style beer made with malts dried over beechwood fire.”

“Like Indian pipes, beechdrops have none of the chlorophyll of most plants and thus are not green.”

“Appearing in late summer and fall, beechdrops are common throughout southern Ontario wherever there are beech forests.”

“The dried stems of beechdrops can often be found through the winter.”

“The head itself is inclined slightly, and the paws are brought together around the acorn or beechnut.”

“I make it from cattails, pine — the inner bark — dandelions, clover, goldenrod, beechnut, hickory nuts, acorns.”

“The dreamlike creations that resemble the shape of a beechnut are cast in a beautiful rose-gold colour.”

“The woods there are thick, mostly high maples and beeches whose leafy crowns create a canopy overhead.”

“Nestled amid those trails and orange red maples, oaks, beeches and birches was the Lost River.”

“As far as vegetation is concerned, there are interesting woods of larches, downy oaks, manna ashes, and beeches.”