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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Silver beech
| image = Silver Beech.JPG
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Fagales]]
| familia = [[Nothofagaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Nothofagus]]''
| species = '''''N. menziesii'''''
| binomial = ''Nothofagus menziesii''
| binomial_authority = ([[Joseph Dalton Hooker|Hook.f.]]) [[Anders Sandøe Ørsted (botanist)|Oerst.]]
}}
[[Image:NothofagusMenziesii003.jpg|thumb|left|240px|Foliage]]'''''Nothofagus menziesii''''' or '''Silver beech''' is a [[tree]] of the [[Nothofagus]] or southern beech genus [[endemism|endemic]] to [[New Zealand]]. Its common name probably comes from the fact that its bark is whitish in colour, particularly in younger specimens.<ref name="NGNZF"> John Dawson and Rob Lucas "''The Nature Guide to the New Zealand Forest''", Godwit, 2000</ref> It is found from Thames southwards in the [[North Island]] (except [[Mount Egmont]]),<ref name="FNZ"> H.H. Allan, "''Flora of New Zealand,volume 1''",Government Printer, 1961</ref> and throughout the [[South Island]]. Silver beech is a forest tree up to 30 [[metre|m]] tall. The trunk, which is often buttressed, may be up to 2 m in diameter.<ref name="NGNZF"/>.<ref>J.T. Salmon, "''A Field Guide to the Native Trees of New Zealand''", Reed Methuen, 1986</ref>The [[leaf|leaves]] are small, thick and almost round in shape, 6 to 15 [[millimetre|mm]] long and 5 to 15 mm wide with rounded teeth which usually occur in pairs,<ref name="NGNZF"/> 1 or 2 hair fringed domatia are found on the underside of each leaf.<ref name="NGNZF"/><ref name="FNZ"/>Its [[Māori language|Māori]] name is '''Tāwhai'''.
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==Footnotes==
{{reflist|2}}
==References==
* Metcalf, Laurie, 2002. ''A Photographic Guide to Trees of New Zealand''. Auckland: New Holland.
==External links==
* [http://cber.bio.waikato.ac.nz/courses/226/Fagaceae/Fagaceae.html University of Waikato: ''Nothofagus'']
* [http://www.fore.canterbury.ac.nz/species/nMenziesii.htm New Zealand School of Forestry: ''Nothofagus menziesii'' photo]
[[Category:Nothofagaceae]]
[[Category:Trees of New Zealand]]
| color = lightgreen
| name = Silver beech
| image = Silver Beech.JPG
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Fagales]]
| familia = [[Nothofagaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Nothofagus]]''
| species = '''''N. menziesii'''''
| binomial = ''Nothofagus menziesii''
| binomial_authority = ([[Joseph Dalton Hooker|Hook.f.]]) [[Anders Sandøe Ørsted (botanist)|Oerst.]]
}}
[[Image:NothofagusMenziesii003.jpg|thumb|left|240px|Foliage]]'''''Nothofagus menziesii''''' or '''Silver beech''' is a [[tree]] of the [[Nothofagus]] or southern beech genus [[endemism|endemic]] to [[New Zealand]]. Its common name probably comes from the fact that its bark is whitish in colour, particularly in younger specimens.<ref name="NGNZF"> John Dawson and Rob Lucas "''The Nature Guide to the New Zealand Forest''", Godwit, 2000</ref> It is found from Thames southwards in the [[North Island]] (except [[Mount Egmont]]),<ref name="FNZ"> H.H. Allan, "''Flora of New Zealand,volume 1''",Government Printer, 1961</ref> and throughout the [[South Island]]. Silver beech is a forest tree up to 30 [[metre|m]] tall. The trunk, which is often buttressed, may be up to 2 m in diameter.<ref name="NGNZF"/>.<ref>J.T. Salmon, "''A Field Guide to the Native Trees of New Zealand''", Reed Methuen, 1986</ref>The [[leaf|leaves]] are small, thick and almost round in shape, 6 to 15 [[millimetre|mm]] long and 5 to 15 mm wide with rounded teeth which usually occur in pairs,<ref name="NGNZF"/> 1 or 2 hair fringed domatia are found on the underside of each leaf.<ref name="NGNZF"/><ref name="FNZ"/>Its [[Māori language|Māori]] name is '''Tāwhai'''.
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==Footnotes==
{{reflist|2}}
==References==
* Metcalf, Laurie, 2002. ''A Photographic Guide to Trees of New Zealand''. Auckland: New Holland.
==External links==
* [http://cber.bio.waikato.ac.nz/courses/226/Fagaceae/Fagaceae.html University of Waikato: ''Nothofagus'']
* [http://www.fore.canterbury.ac.nz/species/nMenziesii.htm New Zealand School of Forestry: ''Nothofagus menziesii'' photo]
[[Category:Nothofagaceae]]
[[Category:Trees of New Zealand]]
