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(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 high tannin content, and can be called beechmast. the southern beeches nothofagus, previously thought to be closely related to beeches, have now been placed in the separate family...
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