Hello, I see this tree every day at the bank. It is the size and shape of a dogwood at 10ft tall by 5ft wide. It has hot pink veragated leaves! I thought it could be a type of dogwood but I could not find any info about pink verigated trees anywhere. Are they rare? Please help me ID it and also if anyone knows where I can get one, I would love to have one!
Thank you! I am sure that you are right, I looked 'Purpurea Tricolor' it .looks just like it! Now I can order one for my yard!
Over there it will probably need to be situated on a site with many taller, existing trees that have a shading and cooling effect to retain a good leaf appearance through the whole summer. Even here in cool western WA 'Purpurea Tricolor' ('Roseomarginata') tends to fade out markedly in summer, a copper beech (with pink highlights) rather than a good purple one. If you have a heavily watered garden air-conditioned by large, lush lawns you may also be able to maintain a better appearance from one of these than otherwise. Do expect, however, less pink (and white) from the tree as it ages. This is a common source of perplexity for the uninitiated, with this cultivar. For whatever reason the high degree of variegation shown by nursery-sized specimens frequently disappears sometimes quite soon after they are planted out in their final positions by purchasers. Note also that this is a full-sized cultivar, a little slower than other copper beeches but no dwarf. One at Whitney Gardens nursery was 73 ft. tall in 1995. http://www.whitneygardens.com/index.html
