FAGUS MEXICANA
LAMBERT M. SURHONE, MARIAM T. TENNOE, SUSAN F. HENSSONOW
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The Mexican Beech or Haya (Fagus mexicana) is a species of beech endemic to northeastern Mexico, where it occurs from southwest Tamaulipas south to Hidalgo and Puebla; it is restricted to high altitude cloud forests in mountains.
It is a deciduous tree, reaching heights of 25-40 m tall and up to 1 m trunk diameter.
It is closely related to the American Beech F. grandifolia, and is treated as a subspecies of it by some (particularly U.S.) authors (as Fagus grandifolia subsp.
mexicana (Martinez) E. Murray); however, Mexican literature generally treats it as a distinct species.
