carpinus caroliniana - GARDENING
Carpinus caroliniana, commonly called American hornbeam, is a slow-growing, deciduous, small to medium-sized understory tree with an attractive globular form. Carpinus caroliniana, the American hornbeam, is a small hardwood understory tree in the genus Carpinus. American hornbeam is also known as blue-beech, ironwood, musclewood and muscle beech for the distinctive sinewy, muscle-like appearance of its trunk.
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One of my favorite native trees from back in my forestry days is Carpinus caroliniana, or American hornbeam, blue beech, or musclewood. Attractive in all seasons, Carpinus caroliniana (American Hornbeam) is a slow-growing, small to medium-sized deciduous tree of upright-spreading habit with a rounded crown. The American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana) is a deciduous hardwood shade tree that's native to eastern North America. It is part of the Betulaceae (birch) family and has several nicknames, including blue beech, muscle beech, water beech, muscletree, musclewood, and ironwood.
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American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana), also called blue-beech, ironwood, water-beech, or lechillo (Spanish), is a small slow-growing short-lived tree in the understory of eastern mixed hardwood forests. A fine hornbeam, grown as Carpinus caroliniana, in the Atlantic climate of Threave Castle in south-west Scotland. There were no features to clinch the likely identification when this photograph was taken in June, 2019.