Ah, I see; thanks. So, now I’m wondering, did settlers from England (etc.) come to US and think, “well, that looks like a beech so let’s call it a beech”? (Edit, see [1])
There’s a narrow horizontal slice of the Midwestern US spanning 4-5 states where green bell peppers were called “mangoes”.
[1] My “TIL” google - apparently there’s up to a baker’s dozen beech-related tree types (not sure why they give the “10-13” range; maybe there’s some argument amongst the eggheads).
- “Both of these lovely hardwood, deciduous trees belong to the Fagus subgenera of beech trees. European beech is classified as Fagus sylvatica and American beech is classified as Fagus grandifolia. 10 to 13 beech tree species are split between two distinct subgenera, Fagus and Engleriana”.
