If you drink tea or coffee with sugar or you have flavoured syrups in your coffee shop drinks, you could be unwittingly damaging your teeth and adding unhelpful calories to your diet. A wide variety of tablet or granular artificial sweeteners are available and are safe to consume in your hot drinks.
Beech bark disease is the result of a complex interaction between three non-native pests (a tiny scale insect and two species of Nectria fungus) and a native Nectria fungus. The beech scale insect wounds the tree by piercing the bark with sharp mouth parts and sucking out the sap.
Description. Spiky cases protect the fruits. The copper beech is a large tree that often grows on chalky soil. The inconspicuous flowers are pollinated by the wind and the fruits are three-sided nuts (called beech mast) inside spiky cases (see image, right).The size and shape of Fagus sylvatica depends on its environment.opper beech trees can be propagated by grafting to maintain the colour of the leaves. Copper beech (Fagus sylvatica 'Atropunicea') at Kew Gardens.