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Ostrya virginiana



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Ostrya virginiana
American hophornbeam

Slender and green becoming brown, the stems appear zigzag and bear 1/2 - 3/4"-long catkins in clusters of mostly 3's at their ends from summer into early spring. The catkins are smaller than those found on the Betula species.

 
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