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Are red beech flowers edible?
Cannot... Red beech for beech belongs to the elm family, deciduous trees, up to 25 meters high. Bark hard, gray-brown, with coarse wrinkles and small protuberances; branches fine, leaves alternate, rows of two columns, elliptic-ovate, single serrate, pinnate veins, hairy, petiole very short. Small yellowish flowers in spring, unisexual, monoecious. The flowers are followed by small, slightly triangular fruits. The wood is firm and beautifully textured, and can be used for construction and artifacts. According to the "Chinese Tree Taxonomy": "Beech wood produced in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for the large-leaved zelkova, alias 'zelkova elm' or 'large-leaved elm'. Wood firm, color and beautiful, very wide range of uses, quite valuable. Its old age and wood with reddish color, specially named 'blood beech'." Some beech wood has a naturally beautiful large pattern, the color is similar to rosewood. Excellent furniture material, and can be used for shipbuilding, construction, bridges and so on.