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Hop Hornbeam is a medium sized round headed deciduous tree with toothed leaves that turn yellow in autumn. The catkins that appear in spring are impressively long and numerous. The following fruits are up to 5cm long with the nutlets being encased in a bladder-like husk. The hard and dense wood was used to make the wooden soles for wood-working planes, and for producing charcoal. Supposedly the tree is resistant to honey-fungus which is useful!
Ostrya carpinifolia
Common name: Hop Hornbeam/ Ironwood.
Native: Southern Europe / West Asia.
Provenance: Italy
Size and spread (10 years): 3m x 2m
Treatment required: Deeply dormant requires 39 weeks stratification treatment.
Seeds / kg: c. 19,0000 25% viable
Ideal sowing period: Spring
Soil conditions: Almost any soil including dry and chalky .
Planting instructions: Sun or semi-shade
Mature height: 15m x 15m
pic courtesy of Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
| Weight | 5.00 g |
|---|---|
| Size | Seed Pack (approx 280 seeds) |
| Genus | Ostrya |
| Family | Betulaceae |
| Hardiness | Hardy |
| Life Cycle | tree |
| Evergreen | deciduous |
| Interest | autumn foliage |
| Requires | part shade |
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