Hornbeam
Carpinus
Hornbeams are hardwood trees in the plant genus Carpinus in the family Betulaceae. Its species occur across much of the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
The common English name hornbeam derives from the hardness of the woods (likened to horn) and the Old English beam, “tree” (cognate with Dutch Boom and German Baum).
The American hornbeam is also occasionally known as blue-beech, ironwood, or musclewood, the first from the resemblance of the bark to that of the American beech Fagus grandifolia, the other two from the hardness of the wood and the muscled appearance of the trunk and limbs.
The botanical name for the genus, Carpinus, is the original Latin name for the European species, although some etymologists derive it from the Celtic for a yoke.
Diseases Affecting Hornbeam
Insects Affecting Hornbeam
Two-lined Chestnut Borer
Adult two-lined chestnut borers are slender, black beetles with a bluish to greenish hue that are 1/5-1/2 inch (5-13 mm) long with two faint, yellowish stripes along their back. Larvae are legless, white, slender, and about 1 inch (2.5 cm) long when fully grown with two spines at the tip of the abdomen and have…
Lecanium Scale
The European fruit lecanium is a key soft scale insect pest of shade trees and other woody ornamental plants in…
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