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Beautiful Beech Tree

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Mother of the Woods The magnificent Beech Tree, Mother of the woods. Beech trees rise up and stand tall often to approx 140 feet high.  They spread their canopies out to nearly as wide to approx 130 feet, offering a cool and dry place on the forest floor.  Her bark is smooth and silky and invites your hands to touch her.  If you stand within a Beech grove; you will feel the magical grace that exudes from her and the ambience texture in the air. Regarded as the Mother of the woods for her protective and nurturing persona; she invites us to open our senses allowing us to perceive the elemental work of nature and is said to inspire and let us creativity flow. HEALING Ancient folklore says that the water found in hollow beech tree “will cure both man and beast of any scurf or scab”. Beech tree has been used for many skin complaints such as eczema and psoriasis and also as an ingredient of the expectorant used for bronchitis. The leaves also have a uses as are cooling and bind...