. Common trees of New York. Trees; Trees. of New York 61 HOP HORNBEAM Ostrya virginiana, Miller (K. Koch) THE HOP HORNBEAM, also called Ironwood, has appro- priate common names, for its fruit is hop-like and the wood is "hard as ; It is the only tree native to eastern North America that produces hop-like fruit. An examina- tion of the fruit shows that it is made up of a number of loose papery bags in each of which is found a little brown nutlet. The seed bags are arranged in clus- ters usually from 1 to 2 inches long and at- tached to the twig by a hairy stem. The leaves are sim
. Common trees of New York. Trees; Trees. of New York 61 HOP HORNBEAM Ostrya virginiana, Miller (K. Koch) THE HOP HORNBEAM, also called Ironwood, has appro- priate common names, for its fruit is hop-like and the wood is "hard as ; It is the only tree native to eastern North America that produces hop-like fruit. An examina- tion of the fruit shows that it is made up of a number of loose papery bags in each of which is found a little brown nutlet. The seed bags are arranged in clus- ters usually from 1 to 2 inches long and at- tached to the twig by a hairy stem. The leaves are sim- ple, alternate, 3 to 5 inches long, ovate, long-pointed, finely toothed along the margin. The flowers are of two kinds. Pollen- bearing and seed-pro- ducing occur on the same tree. The for- mer occur in droop- ing tassels about 2 inches long, and the latter are produced in erect clusters. During winter the partly de- veloped pollen-bearing flower catkins occur in clusters of 3 or 4 at the ends of the twigs. The twigs are delicate and interlacing. The thin grayish- brown bark peeling off in narrow, flat scales, and the small reddish-brown buds with four-ranked bud scales are dis- tinctive. The Hop Hornbeam is widely distributed over the eastern United States. It is found from Cape Breton Island to Florida and west to Minnesota and Texas. It is found locally throughout New York except in the higher Adiron- dacks, but is rare southward on Long Island and Staten Island. One finds this tree usually by itself. It is rarely over 30 feet high and 12 inches in HOP HORNBEAM Twig section and seed with enclosing One-fourth natural size. membrane Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Illick, Joseph S. (Joseph Simon), 1884-1967. Washington, D. C. , American Tree Association
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