Hop hornbeam isn’t the only name this tree goes by - you might know it as ironwood, leverwood, or just hornbeam (this is where common names can be tricky - another woodland shrub, Carpinus ...

Hop hornbeam isn’t the only name this tree goes by - you might know it as ironwood, leverwood, or just hornbeam (this is where common names can be tricky – another woodland shrub, Carpinus ...

Ostrya virginiana, also known as eastern hop hornbeam, is a small, slow growing, understory tree, native to the eastern half of the United States. It grows 20 to 40 feet tall and 15 to 30 feet wide.

Back at the nature center I gleaned through field guides and discovered the tree's identity: hop hornbeam. I'd never heard of it, though I was vaguely familiar with ironwood, its other name.

The Eastern hop hornbeam is a small understory tree that rarely grows taller than 40 feet. The bark on young trees is a smooth, brown-red, but it changes to a uniform brown color that has a very ...

The ironwood that I'm talking about also goes by the names hop hornbeam and leverwood. There's an entirely different tree in our woods that goes by the name ironwood.

Hop hornbeam isn’t the only name this tree goes by - you might know it as ironwood, leverwood, or just hornbeam (this is where common names can be tricky – another woodland shrub, Carpinus ...

The word “hornbeam”, originating from the European Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus), relates to hardness of its wood (may be polished to a shine like horn) and the Old English word for tree (beam ...

While eastern hophornbeam is not large enough for the commercial lumber industry, it is still used locally, and makes an attractive landscape tree. The bark and inner wood of eastern hophornbeam was ...

She has a new crab apple tree, already flowering in a deep pink, and an American hop hornbeam tree that will provide shade. It already had tiny buds growing. “It’s exciting,” Setzer said.