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An individual instance of Ostrya virginiana (hophornbeam)
Permanent unique identifier for this particular organism:
http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt/7-201
Notes:
This small tree is at the corner of Cole Hall facing the entrance stairway of Rand/Sarratt.
Hop hornbeam leaves are toothed on the margin and more even leaf bases than elms. The leaves look very similar to the leaves of American hornbeam. These two trees can easily be distinguished by their bark. Hop hornbeam bark tends to flake off. American hornbeam bark is smooth, gray, and is fluted like muscles. Hop hornbeam fruits are a cluster of inflated scales that look quite different from American hornbeam fruits.
Hop hornbeam is a common tree in the woods of middle Tennessee.
This particular tree is described on p. 61 of The Trees of Vanderbilt.
Hop hornbeam leaves are toothed on the margin and more even leaf bases than elms. The leaves look very similar to the leaves of American hornbeam. These two trees can easily be distinguished by their bark. Hop hornbeam bark tends to flake off. American hornbeam bark is smooth, gray, and is fluted like muscles. Hop hornbeam fruits are a cluster of inflated scales that look quite different from American hornbeam fruits.
Hop hornbeam is a common tree in the woods of middle Tennessee.
This particular tree is described on p. 61 of The Trees of Vanderbilt.
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This organism is a living specimen that is part of the Vanderbilt University Arboretum with the local identifier 3-771.
This particular organism is believed to have managed means of establishment.
This organismal entity has the scope: multicellular organism.
Identifications:
Ostrya virginiana
(Mill.) K. Koch
sec. fna.org 1993
common name: hophornbeam
family: Betulaceae
Identified 2006-03-21 by Steven J. Baskauf
Location:
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, US
Click on these geocoordinates to load a map showing the location: 36.14636°, -86.80399°
Coordinate uncertainty about: 10 m.
Location of individual determined from GIS database.
Occurrences were recorded for this particular organism on the following dates:
2006-03-21
2013-12-11
2014-09-04
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