Beeches: - Edibility of beech nuts | UBC Botanical Garden Forums From the same document quoted above: "An important use of beechnuts in Europe, however, was as a source of oil, especially in France During the early 1800s, some beech forests produced as much as two million bushels of nuts that, when properly treated, yielded oil equal to 1 6 the bulk of the original nuts
Beech husk edible? | UBC Botanical Garden Forums Beechnuts (Fagus sylvatica), which contain 10 per cent digestive albu- men and 86 per cent starch value, are occasionally fed to swine and fat- tening cattle, crushed or cooked, in moderate amounts They should not be fed to horses because they contain a base resembling trimethylamin
Maples Spring 2024 | Page 2 | UBC Botanical Garden Forums Boar damage, pretty extensive actually, below the garden Came for the chestnuts and beechnuts, stayed for the worms! A mandshuricum with the spectacular red buds From the Section Rubra, Acers pycnanthum, rubrum, and saccharinum starting to flower, the rubrum and pycnanthum cultivars are a bit later