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The fruit is a triangle-shaped shell containing 2–3 nuts inside, but many of them do not fill in, especially on solitary trees. Beech nuts are sweet and nutritious, [7] can be eaten raw by wildlife and humans, [26] or can be cooked. [27] They can also be roasted and ground into a coffee substitute. [7] The leaves are edible when cooked. [7]
Beech wood tablets were a common writing material in Germanic societies before the development of paper. The Old English bōc [54] has the primary sense of "beech" but also a secondary sense of "book", and it is from bōc that the modern word derives. [55] In modern German, the word for "book" is Buch, with Buche meaning "beech tree".
The crown is rounded and the bark is smooth and grey. The simple leaves are arranged alternately along the branch. They are broadest towards the base and have 7 to 11 pairs of veins. The nut has a short thick stalk, 15 millimetres (0.6 in) long. There are flattened green whiskers at the base of the husk of the nut. The flowers are wind ...
Copper beech in autumn Shoot with nut cupules. Fagus sylvatica is a large tree, capable of reaching heights of up to 50 metres (160 feet) tall [4] and 3 m (10 ft) trunk diameter, though more typically 25–35 m (82–115 ft) tall and up to 1.5 m (5 ft) trunk diameter.
Nothofagus pumilio, the lenga beech [1] (from the Mapuche language), is a deciduous tree or shrub in the Nothofagaceae family [2] that is native to the southern Andes range, in the temperate forests of Chile and Argentina to Tierra del Fuego, from 35° to 56° South latitude. This tree is in the same genus as the coihue. It regenerates easily ...
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 also known as twisted beech or parasol beech. It is a wide-spreading tree with distinctive twisted and contorted branches that are quite pendulous at their ends.
Tree species such as oak, hickory, and beech produce a hard mast—acorns, hickory nuts, and beechnuts. [5] It has been traditional to turn pigs loose into forests to fatten on this form of mast in a practice known as pannage. [8] Other tree and shrub species produce a soft mast, such as raspberries, blueberries, and greenbriar. [9]
The Fagaceae (/ f ə ˈ ɡ eɪ s i. iː,-ˌ aɪ /; from Latin fagus 'beech tree') are a family of flowering plants that includes beeches, chestnuts and oaks, and comprises eight genera with around 1,000 or more species. [2] [3] [4] Fagaceae in temperate regions are mostly deciduous, whereas in the tropics, many species occur as evergreen trees and