I wear a wooden cap despite the autumn warmth, dropping from high branches to be buried by bushy-tailed thieves, only to wake centuries later as a forest monarch. What am I?
An acorn
An acorn has a cap-like cupule, falls in autumn, is cached by squirrels, and grows into an oak tree.
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