Identifying native beeches: Fuscospora and Lophozonia

Fuscospora cliffortioides Fuscospora solandri Fuscospora truncata Fuscospora fusca Lophozonia menziesii (Nothofagus cliffortioides) (Nothofagus solandri) (Nothofagus truncata) (Nothofagus fusca) (Nothofagus menziesii) mountain beech black beech hard beech red beech silver beech tāwhairauriki tāwhairauriki tāwhairauriki, tāwhairaunui tāwhairaunui tāwhairauriki smooth margins toothed margins • glabrous • may be sparsely hairy • 8-12 teeth each side, blunt, • 6-8 long, twisted, pointed teeth • small rounded marginal teeth uncurved on each side curve strongly in pairs or threes, blunt-ended towards leaf tip (crenate) no domatia domatia* • 4-16 x 3.5-9 mm • 8-20 x 3.5-11 mm • 13–43 × 8–30 mm • 12–45(–55) × 7–35(–40) mm • (4.8–)9–12(–30) × 5.5–14(–25) mm • ovate to triangular-ovate, often • oblong-elliptic to ovate, not • broadly ovate • broadly ovate • broadly ovate wavy usually wavy • tapered evenly to base • tapered obliquely to base, often • veins indistinct • narrowed to tip, tapered obliquely • rounded at tip, often pointed, • veins distinct, 5-6 pairs reddish • 1-4 fringed domatia in basal leaf to base tapered evenly to base axils on underside • short hairs in spaces between • veins distinct, 3-4 pairs, hairs on • veins indistinct • veins indistinct teeth veins • favoured host for mistletoe Peraxilla colensoi • dense white tomentum on • tomentum on underside shed • trunk often has flanges and • spaces between teeth deeply underside • sooty mould on bark buttresses rounded with short hairs • hosts strawberry fungus, Cyttaria • favoured host for mistletoes • 1-2 fringed domatia in basal leaf gunnii Peraxilla tetrapetala and Alepis axils on underside • trunk may be heavily buttressed flavida • trunk buttressed and flanged

Upper side; underside with tomentum Upper side (Landcare); underside with Upper side; underside (Phil Garnock- Juvenile: upper side; underside; domatia, Upper side; underside; domatium, hairs (Alex Fergus, iNaturalist) pointed tip (Phil Garnock-Jones) Jones) hairs on veins (Phil Garnock-Jones) on veins (Phil Garnock-Jones)