Details for: NA 87577, Fagus grandifolia Ehrh., (Shadow's golden selection)

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.

Top Name:

(Shadow's golden selection)

Origin:

–

Maintained:

National Arboretum

Received by NPGS:

07 Dec 2023

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Tree

Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.

Top Name:

(Shadow's golden selection)

Origin:

–

Maintained:

National Arboretum

Received by NPGS:

07 Dec 2023

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Tree

Source History

Accession Names and Identifiers

(Shadow's golden selection)

Type: Other or unclassified name

NA 87577

Type: Site identifier

Group: NA

U.S. National Arboretum

Narrative

Recorded at the U.S. National Arboretum as Fagus grandifolia (Shadow's golden selection). This is a very rare, gold-leafed selection of the species that Don Shadow originally discovered in far northern Alabama and first collected by him and Harald Neubauer around 1988; he was reportedly considering naming it 'Gold Shadow', according to an article in _The American Gardener_ (September/October 1996, pp. 46-47). This plant was grafted by Ray Jackson and given to Dr. Richard Olsen. Originally discovered and collected from the wild in a rural part of Alabama just across the border from Tennessee. During a return visit to the tree years after the initial discovery and propagation, Don Shadow and Mike Hayman found another, smaller American beech with similar gold leaves growing close to a nearby home along the way. According to Alex Neubauer, the area where the tree was found growing wild has since been logged.

Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.

Genus:

Fagus

Subgenus:

Fagus

Family:

Fagaceae

Subfamily:

Fagoideae

Nomen number:

100831

Place of publication:

Gartenkalender 3:288. 1783-1784 (Beitr. Naturk. 3:22. 1788)

Verified:

06/06/1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. subsp. grandifolia (0 active accession[s])
Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. subsp. mexicana (Martínez) A. E. Murray (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Fagus americana Sweet
Fagus ferruginea Aiton

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	American beech	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
French	hêtre américain	2	FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Swedish	amerikansk bok	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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