Fagales

The Fagales are an order of flowering plants, including some of the best known trees.

Families in the order Fagales of plants

Betulaceae - Betulaceae, or the Birch Family, includes six genera of deciduous nut-bearing trees and shrubs, including the birches, alders, hazels, hornbeams and hop-hornbeams, numbering about 130 species.

 

Balanopaceae - Balanops is a genus of flowering plants.

Corylaceae - Betulaceae, or the Birch Family, includes six genera of deciduous nut-bearing trees and shrubs, including the birches, alders, hazels, hornbeams and hop-hornbeams, numbering about 130 species.

Fagaceae - The family Fagaceae, or beech family, comprises about 900 species of both evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs, which are characterized by alternate simple leaves with pinnate venation, unisexual flowers in the form of catkins, and fruit in the form of cup-like nuts.

 

Ticodendraceae - It was discovered only in 1989 in Oaxaca, Mexico, having been overlooked previously due to its habitat in poorly-researched cloud forests and its very 'ordinary' appearance; further research showed its range extends south through Central America to Panama.