Botanical Nerd Word: Fastigiate

Columnar oak showing fastigiate growth form

Fastigiate: Having flowers or branches whose extremities form a tapering or cone-like outline.*

The pyramidal English oaks (Quercus robar ‘Fastigiata’) growing at the end of the Entry Garden Walk have a fastigiate growth form.

*OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017.