Description
O. virginiana – American Hop Hornbeam – Eastern Hop Hornbeam – Ironwood – This conical to rounded tree from Eastern North America grows 50′ feet tall and 40′ feet wide.It has dark brown bark.From glandular-hairy shoots it carries lance shaped, doubly toothed, dark green leaves, to 5″ long, each with 11-15 pairs of veins and paler beneath and turn rich yellow in autumn.In autumn it bears pendulous, yellow male catkins, to 2″ long, and open in spring, hop like white female, fruit clusters, to 2″ long, develop in summer and turn brown in autumn.
Grow in fertile, well drained soil
in sun or partial shade.
Zones 5-9
