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Top: Science: Biology: Flora_and_Fauna: Plantae: Magnoliophyta: Magnoliopsida: Fagaceae
The chestnut genus.
Fagus is the scientific name of the tree genus commonly known as "beech."
Nothofagus is a genus of trees found (in living form and as fossils) on the southern continents that were formerly joined as Gondwanaland. Collectively, Nothofagus species are known as the "Southern Beeches."
Quercus is the genus of the tree commonly known as oak. The trees are characterised by their fruit, 'acorns'. There are around 100 species, found throughout the temperate northern hemisphere, with the distribution extending into the northern tropics.
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