{"id":533,"date":"2013-09-05T12:07:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T19:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/?page_id=533"},"modified":"2025-03-20T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:34:52","slug":"european-beech-coppertricolor-beech","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/european-beech-coppertricolor-beech\/","title":{"rendered":"European Beech, Copper\/Tricolor Beech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0003-european-beech-e1409177229319.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1793 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0003-european-beech-e1409177229319-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0003 european beech\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0003-european-beech-e1409177229319-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0003-european-beech-e1409177229319-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0003-european-beech-e1409177229319.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0104-copper-beech-e1409177021122.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1791 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0104-copper-beech-e1409177021122-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0104 copper beech\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0104-copper-beech-e1409177021122-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0104-copper-beech-e1409177021122-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0104-copper-beech-e1409177021122.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0100-european-beech-e1409177329941.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1794 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0100-european-beech-e1409177329941-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0100 european beech\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0100-european-beech-e1409177329941-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0100-european-beech-e1409177329941-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0100-european-beech-e1409177329941.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A deciduous tree, it can easily attain a huge crown and enormous circumference. Bark is thin, gray, and smooth, resembling elephant skin. The `Atropunicea&#8217; form is the copper or purple beech, where the foliage is not green but hues of orange and purple; each color can vary from tree to tree. This tree is native to Europe but rather common in Portland. The `Tricolor&#8217; form has leaves marked with white and edged with pink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deciduous tree, it can easily attain a huge crown and enormous circumference. Bark is thin, gray, and smooth, resembling elephant skin. The `Atropunicea&#8217; form is the copper or purple beech, where the foliage is not green but hues of&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/european-beech-coppertricolor-beech\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;European Beech, Copper\/Tricolor Beech<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1791,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-533","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1983,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533\/revisions\/1983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}