| Scientific Name: | Fagus sylvatica 'Dawyck Gold' |
| Common Name: | gold columnar beech |
| Family Name: | Fagaceae |
| Origin: | Europe, Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 15 - 22m x 5 - 7m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Fastigiate, Twiggy, Upright |
| Form: | Columnar, Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Fall interest, Hedge row, Shade tree, Small garden/space, Specimen plant, Spring interest, Street (boulevard tree), Tall background, Wind break |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Pubescent, Glandular hairs, Elliptic, Crenate, Entire, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Catkin (ament), Green-yellow, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Nut, (Accessory tissue), Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Tall, narrow, deciduous tree, upright branching with pendulous tips; leaves alternate, broadly elliptic, most blades 4-7cm long x 3-5cm wide, glossy, margins entire, undulate, and often ciliate, 5-9 pairs of parallel major vein, emerge gold changing to bright green over summers, petiole 5-10mm long; buds are long, pointed, spear-like; smooth grey (elephant skin) bark with horizontal lines. Winter ID: columnar form; bark smooth, silver-grey, with a horizontal pattern (like an elephant's leg); buds with few scales, narrowly conical, most 1-2.5cm long x 4-5mm wide, pointed, spear-like, divergent, reddish-brown with grey fuzz. | |