| Description | A smaller more compact purple leaf Beech. |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | (FA-gus)(sil-VAT-i-ka) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Trees Deciduous |
| Sunlight | full, mostly sunny |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | inconspicuous, monoecious, male and female flowers separate on the same tree |
| Fruit | forms a triangular nut enclosed in a spiky 4-lobed involucre, contains 2 nuts |
| Leaves | purple, reported to keep the purple color better than other forms |
| Dimensions | 50 by 40 feet (HS) |
| Cultivar Origin | Introduced by Spath Nursery of Germany in 1901. |
| Misc Facts | Fagus [genus name] is derived from Greek phegos (beech) or phago- (eating) component, and is the Latin name for 'beech tree'. Sylvatica means 'wild, of or from woods or forests'. (#145) |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #93-North American Landscape Trees (Arthur Lee Jacobson), #145-Plant Lives (Sue Eland) www.plantlives.com |
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