
hop-hornbeams
Ostrya
Ostrya is a genus of eight to 10 small deciduous trees belonging to the birch family Betulaceae. Its common name is hophornbeam in American English and hop-hornbeam in British English. It may also be called ironwood, a name shared with a number of other plants.
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first

American hophornbeam
speciesOstrya virginiana

European Hop-hornbeam
speciesOstrya carpinifolia

Knowlton's hophornbeam
speciesOstrya knowltonii

Japanese Hop-hornbeam
speciesOstrya japonica

Big Bend Hop Hornbeam
speciesOstrya chisosensis

Zhejiang hop-hornbeam
speciesOstrya rehderiana
Ostrya trichocarpa
speciesOstrya trichocarpa
Ostrya yunnanensis
speciesOstrya yunnanensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 54772.