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myrtle beech

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Also known as: Australian myrtle, Nothofagus cunninghamii, Tasmanian myrtle, red myrtle

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In southern beech
…Australian, or red, myrtle (N. cunninghamii), a 60-metre (197-foot) Tasmanian tree important for its fine-textured wood; the slender columnar red beech (N. fusca) of New Zealand, about 30 metres tall; and the silver, or southland, beech (N. menziesii), a 30-metre New Zealand tree with doubly and bluntly toothed leaves…
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