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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

I have seen such hedges in England and Scotland.  Most of the hedges are
kept clipped too much to bear, but there are so many adults that seedlings
come up everywhere. When I was in Scotland in late May, I was out in the
woods and kept seeing some unusual looking plants all around - they were
everywhere.  At first I thought they were some sort of oxalis with the odd
round leaves they had, until I realized I was seeing the seed leaves of a
plant.  When the first true leaves came out, I saw they were beech
seedlings. 
-Lon Rombough

> From: "Mark Lee" <markl@nytec.com>
> Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:36:44 -0700
> To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Re: Beech Nuts
> 
> This is an interesting use of beech trees.  What part of Europe did you see
> this in?  I wonder what kind of beech they used?  Any more details on
> extracting the oil (is this a commercial process or a hobby activity)?
> -Mark Lee, Seattle
> 
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> Subject: [NAFEX] Re: Beech Nuts
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> 
> In Europe I saw many beech trees used as espaliers in  living fences and
> I thought they were an ingenious method of using a wildlife food source.
> They were grafted together by interlacing their branches. As was stated,
> the nuts were very small but  like other small  seeds were gathered as
> an oil source.
> Doc Lisenby
> Zone 7/8
>