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