Carya includes the edible nut trees the hickory and pecan. They are beautiful large native trees, important for their commercial nut crops, but not used for landscape purposes. They develop large taproots and are not easily transplanted, grow to over […]

C. turczaninowii is a handsome tree, attaining an open and rounded appearance in maturity with glossy, dentated leaves and green to chartruese catkins. The catkins mature into nodding green fruit. Cultivated for its upright or pyramidal habit, ornamental foliage, great […]

C. tschonoskii has a less fastigiate appearance than some hornbeam, tending rather to a spreading shape with glossy, dentated leaves, gilding in the autumn. The catkins are green and chartuese giving rise to nodding green, then ripe-banana-yellow fruit. Cultivated for […]

C. japonica, a Japanese Hornbeam is a smaller variety, usually less than thirty feet in height, but does not have considerable fall color display. Cultivated for its upright or pyramidal habit, ornamental foliage, and pendant, leafy-bracted racemes of friut. Gray […]

C. cordata is rarely seen outside botanical gardens or private collections, Heartleaf Hornbeam has larger, slightly heart-shaped leaves, is rounded in habit and tends to be in the smaller range for height, usually not more than thirty feet. Cultivated for […]

C. caroliniana is an American Hornbeam noted for it’s very fine display of fall color and beautiful bark. The American Hornbeam is also generally smaller than European Hornbeam, rarely reaching more 39 feet in height and spread. Cultivated for its […]

‘Vienna Weeping’ is a fairly reliable pendant cultivar. C. betulus is cultivated for its upright or pyramidal habit, ornamental foliage, great fall color, and pendant, leafy-bracted racemes of fruit. Gray bark is fluted and smooth. Leaves are mid-green, ovate, unequally […]

The cultivar, ‘Variegata’ is true to type in form but it’s leaves bear streaks and flecks of pale yellow and ivory. C. betulus is cultivated for its upright or pyramidal habit, ornamental foliage, great fall color, and pendant, leafy-bracted racemes […]

‘Rowgow’ is quite small in size, reaching perhaps ten feet in height at maturity, but twice that in width. C. betulus is a cultivated for its ornamental foliage, great fall color, and pendant, leafy-bracted racemes of fruit. Gray bark is […]

‘Quercifolia’ is true to type in habit but has leaves that resemble oak leaves. Autumn color i soft golden tan. C. betulus is cultivated for its upright or pyramidal habit, ornamental foliage, great fall color, and pendant, leafy-bracted racemes of […]