Fruiting Bodies of Iron Wood or American Hophornbeam, Ostrya virginiana, Betulaceae, North America.

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Fruiting Bodies of Iron Wood or American Hophornbeam, Ostrya virginiana, Betulaceae, North America. Ostrya virginiana (American Hophornbeam), is a species of Ostrya native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Manitoba and eastern Wyoming, southeast to northern Florida and southwest to eastern Texas and northeastern Mexico. Other names include eastern hophornbeam, hardhack (in New England), ironwood, and leverwood. The fruit, resembling hops, are small nutlet 3–5 mm long fully enclosed in papery white involucres.

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Location: North America
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