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• n  variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves

• copper beech
• Fagus sylvatica atropunicea
• Fagus purpurea
• Fagus sylvatica purpurea

News & Articles

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• Old Chelmsford tree has a lasting legacy
  Planted 122 years ago in town center by the 40 Chelmsford High School students at the time taught by naturalist Susan Emerson, the Purple Beech Tree lives on, despite its uprooting last fall.
  June 28, 2013 - Chelmsford Independent