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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, Orbicular, Ciliate |
Flowers: | Catkin (ament), Green-yellow, Apr-May |
Fruit: | Edible, Nut, (Accessory tissue), Brown, Sep-Oct |
Key ID Features: | |
Leaves tips and bases rounded, margins entire with fine hairs, most 3-4cm wide x 4-5cm long. 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. |