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north america. their bark is thin, gray, and smooth even in older trees. beeches have alternate, simple, slender leaves that are entire or sparsely toothed, and from - centimeters (cm) long and - cm broad. the leaves typically are pale to dark green but turn golden or copper-orange in autumn. the flowers
of beeches are small, single-sex, wind-pollinated catkins, produced in spring shortly after the new leaves appear. the fruit is a small, sharply three-angled nut - millimeters long, borne in pairs in soft-spined husks - cm long, known as cupules. the nuts are edible for humans, though bitter with a...
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