This is the American — or Eastern — hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana). A member of the birch family, hophornbeam grows in the understory in a variety of northeastern hardwood forest types. It is also ...

This is the American – or Eastern – hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana). A member of the birch family, hophornbeam grows in the understory in a variety of northeastern hardwood forest types. It is also ...

This is the American — or Eastern — hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana). A member of the birch family, hophornbeam grows in the understory in a variety of northeastern hardwood forest types. It is also ...

A deciduous tree, to around 15m high, conical when young and later spreading to rounded, with glossy, oval-shaped, deeply veined green leaves with doubly serrated edges. Yellow-green, pendent catkins ...

A cone-shaped or columnar evergreen tree with mid-to dark green needle-like foliage. As a mature specimen of 15-30m (50-100ft) it is well-branched with peeling brown bark. Small round blue-green ...