Hop Hornbeam Seed

Ostrya carpinifolia

£6.50 inc. VAT

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!

Earn up to 7 Points.

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Description

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

Additional information

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