Copper Beech

The Copper beech is widespread in Europe as a park or garden tree. It is a mutation of Beech, wherein the epidermal layer of the sheet is non-transparent and hence can not be seen, the green color of chlorophyll.

Fagus sylvatica purpurea

Beech family (Fagaceae)

deciduous tree

up to 40 m (131 ft)

The leaves of the Copper beech are ovate. The color of the leaves can vary from dark red to red-green. In the sprouting leaves are dark red. The leaf margin is slightly serrated.

ovoid

toothed

red - orange

May

reddish

Inconspicuous bright red flower that appears with the leaf shoots.

monoecious

Spiky fruit capsule with two beechnuts. The beechnuts are slightly toxic.

The branches are gray-brown, bent back and forth and elastic. The light brown buds are long, narrow, pointed and protruding.

The bark is silver-gray and smooth.

Heart-rooting plant with shallow widely branched roots. Roots are sensitive to soil compaction.

Sun to shade

sandy - loamy to loamy

slightly acidic to alkaline

parks, large gardens

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