| Scientific Name: | Fagus sylvatica 'Dawyck Purple' |
| Common Name: | Dawyck purple 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: | Fastigiate, Twiggy, Upright |
| Form: | Columnar, Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Fall interest, Shade tree, Small garden/space, Specimen plant, Spring interest, Street (boulevard tree), Tall background |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Glandular hairs, Elliptic, Ovate, Ciliate, Entire, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Catkin (ament), Purple, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Nut, (Accessory tissue), Purple, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Narrowly columnar tree; leaves alternate, broadly elliptic, most blades 4-7cm long x 3-5cm wide, dark purple, turning red in fall, glossy, margins entire, undulate, and often ciliate. Winter ID: columnar form; 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. | |