Fagus sylvatica

HortFlora records grown trees in New South Wales at Mount Wilson, in Victoria at Bulleen, Mount Macedon and the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne, and in Tasmania at Launceston. The North Carolina State Extension toolbox gives full sun to part shade and moist, well-drained soil, acid to alkaline, and finds it intolerant of wet or poorly drained soil, of urban conditions and of high summer heat; those are American observations. It gives USDA zones 4a to 7b, an American scale and not an Australian climate zone. No Australian reference read covers the green species' own frost or drought; the ACT Government's sheet for the purple form gives that form high frost tolerance and moderate drought tolerance.

The North Carolina State Extension toolbox lists European beech as a shade and specimen tree for a large lawn or park, notes that in America it is often planted in parks and on golf courses, and says it takes pruning and can be grown as a hedge or screen. Its nuts are eaten by birds and small mammals, by the same toolbox. No reference read gives a planting distance or a root space for the green species; the ACT Government's sheet for the purple form gives a soil volume for that form, and the purple beech page sets it out.

HortFlora uses Purple Group as the collective name for trees with deep purple leaves, raised from seed or grafted, and Copper Group for clones with paler leaves; check the leaf colour of the form a grower lists. The table above shows the sizes growers list. If the stock crosses a state border, the state and territory biosecurity rules on moving plants and soil apply to this plant like any other.