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copper beech

Graeme 4Graeme 4 Posts: 6
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I often admire trees which i believed to be copper beech trees with lovely coppery even rust coloured leaves, however any time i look up info it seems to me copper beech trees have dark purple leaves. Am i therefore mistaken? Any advice would be grateful

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  • AWBAWB Posts: 421

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    Anything like this. Other varieties not yet fully in leaf.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    Copper beech foliage in spring is indeed a glorious coppery colour

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     but in the summer it darkens to a dark purplish colour

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    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • AWBAWB Posts: 421

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     And in the autumn it changes colour again.

  • WelshonionWelshonion Posts: 3,114
    AWB, that looks more like an oak tree. I can't get close enough to see clearly.
  • AWBAWB Posts: 421

    It's a Beech Rohanni. I planted it

  • AWBAWB Posts: 421

    Aka purple oak leaf beech, Rohanii

  • WelshonionWelshonion Posts: 3,114
    OK point taken. I think Dove has demonstrated a more usual variety.
  • Graeme 4Graeme 4 Posts: 6

    Thanks have tried to upload picture but doesn't seem to work

     

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