• 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 Purple Beech is a variety of the Weeping Beech, which in turn is a cultivated variety of the European Beech. The leaves of the Weeping Purple Beech are purplish, although the color may fade somewhat to green in the heat of summer.

 Bark

 Twigs and Buds