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, produced in spring shortly after the new leaves appear. the fruit is a small, sharply three-angled nut - millimeters long, borne in pairs in soft-spined husks - cm long, known as cupules. the nuts are edible for humans, though bitter with a high tannin content, and can be called beechmast. the southern
pairs in a soft-spined, four-lobed husk. the american beech is a shade-tolerant species, favoring the shade more than other trees, commonly found in forests in the final stage of succession. although sometimes found in pure stands, it is more often associated with sugar maple, yellow birch, and eastern...
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