Fagus sylvatica 'Atropunicea' - Purple beech

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Specifications:

Habit:

Large, powerful tree with dense foliage, 25-30 (40) m tall, 10-15 (25)m wide, broadly domed crown, usually with leader and arching to horizontal branches, twigs hanging to the groand when free-standing, moderate to fastgrowing, 40-60 (80) cm a year.

Bark:

Smooth, silvery grey.

Fruits:

Triangular beechnuts in soft, thorny capsules, flowers inconspicuous.

Leaves:

Intensely coppery or dark red when shoots, shiny metallic, later matt dark red; from October orange-red autumn colouring.

Roots:

Cordate or shallow roots with the greatest root density of all European trees; aggressive, but sensitive to all kinds of intervention.

Demands:

Sun to shade, can wait for light for a long time in the shade of other trees; sensitive when old to sudden exposure (bark blight); sensitive to heat, average frost hardiness; somewhat sensitive to late frost; avoids dry soil and low humidity; wind resistant; sensitive to industrial air pollution. In the interest of a uniform red leaf colouring, the tree should only be planted in sunny locations.

Soil:

All somewhat nutritious substrates, fresh to moist, slightly acidic to alkaline, loamy; sensitive to salt and soil pollution of all kinds.

Note:

The typical glossy dark red colouring develops particularly intensively only after a few years.

Hardiness:

Zone 5b

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