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TIL that the American Beautyberry fruit is food for more than 40 species of songbirds and eaten by armadillo, foxes, opossum, raccoon, squirrels and white tailed deer (eat fruit and leaves) in addition to being used as medicine by Native American tribes and as mosquito repellent by early farmers.

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