CATTON ARBORETUM

Fagus sylvatica Albomarginata

Common name: White edged Beech

Year planted: 2012

Country of origin: Beech are common throughout most of Europe

Year introduced: A 1770 cultivar

Description: A cultivar with irregularly white margined leaves. Slower growing than the species but can reach 30m in time with smooth grey bark. Inconspicuous flowers are followed by the usual spiny beech nuts. Shaded leaves can revert to green

what3words: remotest.rumble.resolved
Tree number: 143
Fagus sylvatica Albomarginata (White edged Beech)