Looks like a weeping copper beech. Or is the colour misleading.

what is the color difference flora .... this is a deep purple..

my copper beech is nowhere are deep purple...

as noted.. it dank grey cloudy day.. didnt help the picture at all ... i think im going to have to go take a pic in the evening some day.. when the sun would be behind my back ... this pic was noon on a cloudy day.. really weird light ... for a pic of a big purple tree anyway ...

ken

Are these trees few and far between? It would be nice to see the purple coloring…..

debra

If it’s deep purple it’s a Copper Beech. But you said it was Fagus sylvatica ’Pendula’ which is green.

If it was planted since 1975 it might be F sylvatica ’Purple Fountain’.

I'll second Purpe Fountain. I tried to grow one of these a few years back, which was a complete failure. What a nice specimen.

Here's mine from 2018. Right now it is over 100 degrees outside, and we have no A/C, so I won't go out there to take a photo. 80 degrees inside, so we are OK.

We planted this one in the 80's and, Ken, it is PURPLE. ;-)

-Babka

O, there are several immense specimens in our local graveyard. Will try to photograph. I collected seeds (luckily, it was a 'mast year' ) and have some chunky seedlings destined for my wood.

Personally, I don't much like either purple or weeping trees but have been overruled by the rest of the fam. More keen on corylus maximus purpurea, which froths around an enormous rosa moyesii.

If it was planted since 1975 it might be F sylvatica ’Purple Fountain’.

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yeah.. thats what got me confused .. its purple ... and i wondered if the cultivar name reached back prior to its planting .... no way to know that.. and by the time i got thru wondering about that.. i just copied the wrong name from the search engine ...

mad-gall... if you can ever get a better pic.. it would be great ...

ken

are we saying there were no purple ones prior to 1975 ... or are we saying the name was... for lack of a better term.. registered in 75? ....

great pix flora ... thx .. that green one is just 15 years old??? .. crikey ...

ken

No, we are not saying there were no weeping copper beeches before 1975. Just that the cultivar Purple Fountain was introduced then.

The two familiar ones are 'Purple Fountain' and the older (~1865) variety from which it was derived called 'Purpurea Pendula'.

Fagus sylvatica - Trees and Shrubs Online

thx embo.. i think you told me the same many years ago.... in tree time.. maybe a decade ago ...

ken

Tree time on social media tends to be hundreds or even thousands of years. Usually without any supporting evidence being presented.

i dont know how old you are... but ive not hit the century mark ... lol

ken

I have to correct the age of the green weeper. It isn’t 15 after all ...... it’s 17. I checked the plaque today. Planted 2005.

Groan.

OK, now embo is really back.

tj

Love the weeping and purple color……Babka, yours is lovely

embo, got a good laugh!

debra