Carpinus betulus
Hornbeam Tree
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Common Name: Hornbeam Tree
Latin Name: Carpinus betulus
Soil: Any good garden soil
Position: Full sun or partial shade
Flowering period/colour: Spring/Green catkins
Hardiness: Fully hardy
Height and spread in 20 years: 6m/5m
Special features: A handsome deciduous tree with dense very attractive dark green leaves.
Similar in appearance to beech, hornbeam makes a superb specimen tree. Grown as a tree, it has a pyramidal shape that later becomes more rounded. Although it is deciduous, it retains its coppery dead leaves throughout the winter so it remains an effective screen. Green catkins appear in spring and winged nuts develop in autumn.