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    The dwarf beech, Fagus sylvatica Tortuosa Group, is a rare cultivar group of the European Beech with fewer than 1500 older specimens in Europe. It is...
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    Fagus sylvatica, the European beech or common beech, is a large, graceful deciduous tree in the beech family with smooth silvery-gray bark, large leaf...
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  • A Fau de Verzy is either a Dwarf Beech (Fagus sylvatica variety tortuosa), a dwarf oak tree, or a dwarf chestnut tree. These grow in the forest of Verzy...
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    examples of the rare, native dwarf beech (Süntelbuche). Spruce and beech wood along the Deister ridgeway Dwarf beeches at the Feggendorf picnic site...
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    to the village of Hülsede. A botanical feature of this region is the Dwarf Beech, known in German as the Süntelbuche. There are still several old examples...
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  • Faux-Villecerf, French commune of the Aube department Faux de Verzy, dwarf beech from the region of Reims, France Faux (river), river in the French Ardennes...
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    resembling Norse dwarfs. "Midget", whose etymology indicates a "tiny biting insect", came into prominence in the mid-19th century after Harriet Beecher Stowe used...
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    meadows. In the Bieszczady Mountains there is no Norway spruce zone, and dwarfed beeches transition directly to alpine meadows above 1200 meters elevation....
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    prisoners at the center. Photos were destroyed, but a few remained hidden. Dwarf Beech avenue in Bad Nenndorf Haus Hanover Saint Gotthard Church Franco-Prussian...
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    wild service tree. A botanic rarity is the dwarf beech (known in German as the Süntel-Buche or "Süntel beech") of which there are about a dozen old examples...
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    The coat of arms features an image of the "Tilly-Buche", (1739-1994) a dwarf beech tree which existed in the area. "Direktwahlen in Niedersachsen vom 12...
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    Weser Cycleway along the River Weser. A botanic feature are the rare Dwarf Beech trees (Süntelbuchen). Of increasing importance is motorcycle tourism...
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    girths. A curiosity is a red beech with a twisting growth. Until the year 2000, the oldest tree in Bochum, a dwarf beech planted in 1740, also stood there...
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    The beech marten (Martes foina), also known as the stone marten, house marten or white breasted marten, is a species of marten native to much of Europe...
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    on the Heber. Near the little village of Gremsheim stands the biggest Dwarf Beech in Germany. In the southeast of the Heberwald lies the village of Mechtshausen...
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    Odershausen, near the Jägersburg ("Hunter's Castle"), stand three old dwarf beeches. Also, the Bilstein Cliffs near Reizenhagen tempt climbers. Bad Wildungen's...
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    generally similar dwarf chinquapin oak (Quercus prinoides). Chinquapin oak is usually a tree, but occasionally shrubby, while dwarf chinquapin oak is...
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    pejorative due to its etymology. While not a medical term like dwarf (for a person with dwarfism, a medical condition with a number of causes, most often achondroplasia)...
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    The common dwarf mongoose (Helogale parvula) is a mongoose species native to Angola, northern Namibia, KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, Zambia and East...
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    reserve of Weser Hills Crest (Kamm des Wesergebirges) very rare, native dwarf beeches (Süntelbuchen) Dripstone caves The most northerly examples of Hartstein...
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    orbits with a period of about 550,000 years. Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star with a mass about 12.5% of the Sun's mass (M☉), and average density...
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    Least weasel (redirect from Dwarf Weasel)
    Pousargues's mongoose (Dologale dybowskii) Helogale Ethiopian dwarf mongoose (H. hirtula) Common dwarf mongoose (H. parvula) Crossarchus Alexander's kusimanse...
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    subsp. regius Southern beeches Nothofagus Black beech Nothofagus solandri var. solandri Hard beech Nothofagus truncata Mountain beech Nothofagus solandri...
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    The Ethiopian dwarf mongoose (Helogale hirtula), also known as the desert dwarf mongoose or Somali dwarf mongoose, is a mongoose native to East Africa...
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    Quercus minima, the dwarf live oak or minimal oak, is a North American species of shrubs in the beech family. It is native to the southeastern United...
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  • culture grew with successful feature films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 and the opening of the Disneyland Amusement park in 1955. Other...
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  • actor. He is known for playing Captain Hollister on the BBC TV series Red Dwarf and frequently plays American characters in other British TV shows. He has...
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    during the last evolutionary stages of a massive star, or when a white dwarf is triggered into runaway nuclear fusion. The original object, called the...
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    interior Alaska: white spruce/feathermoss; white spruce/dwarf birch/feathermoss; white spruce/dwarf birch/sphagnum; white spruce/avens/moss; and white...
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  • as a dwarf pine belt, alpine meadows, lakes and rocky peaks. The area consists of temperate broadleaf forests or woodlands made up of mixed beech (Fagus...
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