- Fagus sylvatica "Purpurea Latifolia"
- Europe
Genus
Fagus is the Latin name for the beech. The most beautiful and, together with the oak, the most important tree of the deciduous forest; up to 400 years old. The genus comprises ten species.
Deciduous, large, stately, over 40 meters high and wide forest, park, garden and landscape tree with great design and ecological qualities.
The tall, smooth, silver-grey trunks with mighty strong branches support the green canopy. In bionics, it is "the model of the Gothic cathedral". Leaves: whole-margined, ovate-pointed, four to ten centimetres long, smooth, light green, yellow-brown autumn coloring, cling to the shoot for a long time until spring.
The Celts carved oracle signs/runes into beech wood. In China, the beech is immortalized in the oracle wisdom "Ching". St. Hildegard von Bingen used beech wood as a remedy for cramps, fever and jaundice, and beech ash was used to treat ulcers and wounds in humans and animals.
In the vernacular, the saying arose during thunderstorms: "You should avoid oaks, you should flee from spruces, you should also avoid willows, but you should seek out beeches."
Information on the species
Fagus sylvatica "Purpurea Latifolia"
The word sylvatica is Latin and means belonging to the forest or forest-dwelling.
Deciduous, large, high-arched tree with a rounded, even crown, spreading widely. Final height up to 30 meters and crown width 25 to 30 meters. Unbeatably striking in a solitary or group stand. (Rhine romance, view from the Godesburg)
Leaves: ovate, pointed, up to ten centimetres long; dark red when sprouting, later shiny black-red; autumn color: yellow-brown-orange
Flowers: monoecious; male flowers in spherical clusters on stems; female flowers: reddish in pairs
Fruits: triangular, brown hard shells in pairs in spiky, upright fruit cups with well-known oily seeds, the "beechnuts"