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Fagus sinensis; photograph Aaron Liston, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF CC BYAaron Liston, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF

Fagus sinensis Oliv.

South Chinese Beech

Fagaceae · China South-Central, China North-Central +2

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Summary

Fagus sinensis, the long-petiole beech, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fagaceae. It is native to central and southern China and northern Vietnam. A slow-growing tree reaching 25 m (82 ft) and spreading to half as wide, the Royal Horticultural Society recommends it for its yellow fall foliage, but only for "architectural" applications in large gardens. Cold-hardy, it is available from commercial nurseries.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Fagus sinensis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 359 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 359 of the 359 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast, Vietnam · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker25.18, 114.33 · in the densest population, 237 records (66% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 359 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 216 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 73 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 359 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 359 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Eugene Popov, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (3).

Other Fagus 10 in the reference

Fagus crenata Fagus crenata Japanese beech Photo: CC BY, ITÔ, HirokiFagus engleriana Fagus engleriana Chinese Beech Photo: CC0, DaderotFagus grandifolia Fagus grandifolia American beech Photo: CC BY, Jason E. FarabaughFagus hayatae Fagus hayatae Taiwan beech Photo: CC BY, 曾昱承 Yu-Cheng ZengFagus japonica Fagus japonica Japanese Blue Beech Photo: CC BY, りなべるFagus lucida Fagus lucida Fagaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Agnieszka Kwiecień, NovaFagus mexicana Fagus mexicana Fagaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Diego MFagus orientalis Fagus orientalis Oriental Beech Photo: CC BY, Сергей ГолубевFagus sylvatica Fagus sylvatica Beech Photo: CC BY, fbalboaFagus × taurica Fagus × taurica Crimean beech Photo: CC BY, Igor Balashov

Names & registers

Also known as Fagus bijiensis; Fagus brevipetiolata; Fagus clavata; Fagus longipes; Fagus longipetiolata and 7 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Fagaceae
Described by
Oliv.
Native to
China South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast +1
Wild records
359 in range · 216 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22359 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 20 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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