| Scientific Name: | Fagus sylvatica 'Rotundifolia' |
| Common Name: | round leaf beech |
| Family Name: | Fagaceae |
| Origin: | Europe, Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 10 - 15m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Street (boulevard tree) |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Oblong, Orbicular, Ovate, Ciliate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Catkin (ament), Green-yellow, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Edible, Nut, (Accessory tissue), Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, broadly ovate to orbicular, most blades 3-4cm wide x 4-5cm long, apex and base rounded, margins entire with fine hairs. Winter ID: bark smooth, silver-grey, with a horizontal pattern (like an elephant's leg); buds narrowly conical, most 1-2.5cm long x 4-5mm wide, pointed, spear-like, divergent, reddish-brown with grey fuzz. | |