CATTON ARBORETUM

Fagus sylvatica Red Obelisk

Common name: Red columnar Beech

Year planted: 2014

Country of origin: Beech are common throughout most of Europe

Year introduced: Red Obelisk is a cultivar of the common beech introduced in the 1960s in Germany

Description: Red Obelisk is a very narrow form which can grow to about 15m in time. It has deep burgundy leaves which turn coppery, bronze before falling in the winter.

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Tree number: 97
Fagus sylvatica Red Obelisk (Red columnar Beech)