| Scientific Name: | Fagus sylvatica 'Purple Fountain' |
| Common Name: | weeping purple beech |
| Family Name: | Fagaceae |
| Origin: | Europe, Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 7 - 10m x 2 - 3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Pendulous, Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Columnar, Weeping |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Small garden/space, Specimen plant, Tall background |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Pubescent, Elliptic, Ovate, Ciliate, Entire, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Catkin (ament), Purple, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Edible, Nut, (Accessory tissue), Green, Brown, Sep-Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Tall, narrow, deciduous tree with pendulous branches; leaves emerge dark purple and fade to purple-green in summer. 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. | |