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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.

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CARPINUS betulus

Common hornbeam

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Pot grown

Gift-wrapping available

individually £11.00 each , 10+ £10.00 each

CARPINUS betulus 'Fastigiata'

Common hornbeam

upright columnar growing form

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Whip

Gift-wrapping available

£25.00 each

CARPINUS betulus 'Rockhampton Red'

Common hornbeam

excellent autumn colour in fiery orange and red

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Whip

Gift-wrapping available

£25.00 each

CARPINUS caroliniana 'Red Fall'

American hornbeam.

Red new growth turns green in summer. Spectacular autumn colour, orange-red.

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Gift-wrapping available

£30.00

CARPINUS fangiana

Fang's hornbeam

perhaps the most striking and unusual of all hornbeams which is a serious 'must have' for any collector. Bronze young leaves and long clusters of fruits with toothed bracts

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Grafted

£30.00 each