• broad, flat
• simple
• not lobed
• smooth margins, entire
• alternate
• without needle-like bristles
• not heart-shaped
• widest toward tip or middle
• 2" - 4" long, edges wavy

• other fruit (not cone, winged, acorn, or in pod or capsule)
• nut in a husk
  
• thin, spiny husk
  
• fruit less than 2" in diameter, weak, unbranched spines

The Weeping Beech is a cultivated variety of the European Beech. Branches of the Weeping Beech droop noticeably. These hanging branches sometimes touch the ground, and may be so numerous as to hide the tree's trunk. Such trees give the appearance of a massive mound of foliage.

 Bark

 Twigs and Buds

Flower