Colin Varndell / Mature Beech trees (Fagus sylvatica) in spring, on beech avenue near Badbury Rings, Dorset, UK. May 2008

Sandra Bartocha / Gespensterwald (ghostly forest) - European Beech forest (Fagus sylvatica), Nienhagen, Germany.

Sandra Bartocha / Gespensterwald (ghostly forest) - European Beech forest (Fagus sylvatica) in snow, Nienhagen, Germany. RUNNER-UP: Creative Visions of Nature - Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010

Aflo / N-5703 900-year-old European beech tree in field {Fagus sylvaticus} Bavaria, Germany.

Stephen Dalton / European beech trees (Fagus sylvatica) falling in autumn, UK

Sandra Bartocha / European beech trees (Fagus sylvatica) in Gespensterwald, Nienhagen, Mecklenburg-Western Pommerania, Germany.

Inaki Relanzon / Looking up into European Beech (Fagus sylvatica)tree canopy in autumm colours. Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, Pyrenees, Aragon, Spain. October 2009

Inaki Relanzon / Looking up into European Beech (Fagus sylvatica)tree canopy in autumm colours. Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, Pyrenees, Aragon, Spain. October 2009

Guy Edwardes / Beech (Fagus sylvatica) woodland in winter, Cranborne Chase, Dorset, England, December 2006

Wild Wonders of Europe / Müller / European beech (Fagus sylvatica) trees in forest, Pollino National Park, Basilicata, Italy, November 2008

Stephen Dalton / Looking up at European beech tree canopy {Fagus sylvatica} with contorted trunks and branches, Wakehurst Place, West Sussex, UK

Laurie Campbell / European Beech (Fagus sylvatica) young leaves emerging in spring, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK, May