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[Melissa Kacalanos <mijwiz@yahoo.com>]

I don't know why this article calls beech nuts bitter.
Maybe there's a lot of variability. On the rare
occasions when I've found a tree with a lot of nuts,
I've pigged out on them. They're at least as mild and
tasty as almonds, and easy to shell.

Melissa


--- "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>   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>
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