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  • CARPINUS
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    CARPINUS

    Commonly known as Hornbeam

    Attractive specimen trees grown for their elegant habit, ornamental foliage, autumn colour and pendent racemes of fruit. Male and female catkins on same tree in spring. Hardier than beech and tolerates wet soil much better.

    Hornbeams yield very hard timber which is difficult to work. Long-lasting items such as tool handles, coach wheels, shoe lasts and gear pegs for windmills have been worked from this "ironwood".

    Genus of about 40 species of deciduous trees from woodland in Europe, Asia and North America.

    The UK native C. betulus, most common in the southeast, and rare in Scotland and Ireland, is favoured by the elusive hawfinch which is fond of the seeds which fall from October.

    Plant Details
    • Good to know
      Attractive specimen trees and excellent for hedging.
    • Deciduous
    • Tree
    Planting Tips and Care Advice
    Carpinus - Growing Guide

    Varieties

    CARPINUS betulus
    Common hornbeam
     
    Pot grown
    £12.00
    CARPINUS fargesiana
    Chinese hornbeam, Hornbeam, Vietnamese hornbeam
    Elegant weeping branches and long decorative hop-like seed clusters hang
     
    2 Litre
    £25.00
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    CARPINUS japonica
    A beautiful spreading tree with corrugated leaves and conspicuous fruiting catkins from an early age
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £25.00
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    CARPINUS kawakamii
    Small tree in cultivation. Serrated leaves and long catkins. Evergreen in our climate in Cornwall
     
    2 Litre
    £25.00
    Estimated availability autumn 2025 Any time SEPT-DEC
    Not yet confirmed. Could be any time between September and December.
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