CATTON ARBORETUM
Fagus sylvatica Midnight Feather
Common name: Cut leaf Purple Beech
Year planted: 2024
Country of origin: Germany
Year introduced: Rare cultivar first found in the late 19th century
Description: This cultivar is a very slow growing plant with fine, narrow, willow like, deep purple leaves. These leaves develop and change throughout the seasons, turning greenish-purple later in the summer changing to bronze and yellow autumn tints before the leaves then fall in Autumn. It is a hardy tree preferring well drained fertile soil and whose colour is at is most impressive in full sun.
what3words: partied.youngest.chestnuts
Tree number: 4
Year planted: 2024
Country of origin: Germany
Year introduced: Rare cultivar first found in the late 19th century
Description: This cultivar is a very slow growing plant with fine, narrow, willow like, deep purple leaves. These leaves develop and change throughout the seasons, turning greenish-purple later in the summer changing to bronze and yellow autumn tints before the leaves then fall in Autumn. It is a hardy tree preferring well drained fertile soil and whose colour is at is most impressive in full sun.
what3words: partied.youngest.chestnuts
Tree number: 4
