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

On a few occasions members have discussed beech trees as having edible nuts (mast).  I thought this article might be of interest on that account.  One surprise was reading that the trees only have a heavy crop about every five years.  Good way to keep the squirrel population down, at least.
-Lon Rombough


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 Wild and Wonderful Mayo Advertiser, November 07, 2008.
Mayo Advertiser - Mayo,Ireland
 While beech trees do not occupy anything like the place in our mythology and traditions as do, for example, the oak and the hawthorn, it still has a ...
  http://www.advertiser.ie/mayo/article/4260