American+Beech

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Katie LaBelle Brittney Manges Amanda Moore Lily Sweet

=Revised Research= The scientific name of the American beech is //Fagus grandifolia.// It grows in the southern and eastern areas of the United States. They are important to the food chain because some animals eat the trees to get protein. It has triangular nuts that have four parts, and ripen around October.

The //Fagus grandifolia//, or American Beech, which literally means "editable large leaves", grows in the southern and eastern areas of the United States. Some animals eat parts of the tree, including the smooth, grey, and editable bark hence why the American Beech is so important to the food chain. The American Beech has triangular nuts that have two to four seeds the nuts ripen around October. It usually takes about forty years for the American Beech to produce seeds.