Hop hornbeams look similar to regular hornbeams, but they are an entirley different species. Distuinguish them from their similar looking cousins by rough bark and denser, hop-like fruiting bodies.
Trees provide more benefits the older and larger they are.
Hornbeams are fine attractive trees that eventually become quite large, but not quite as big as beech trees.
Look out for fluted, muscular trunks and serrated oval leaves, similar to beech. Drooping clusters of winged nuts become quite conspicuous in the autumn.
Trees provide more benefits the older and larger they are.
Trees support 100s of other living things. This tree provides a medium benefit to insects (biomass of foliage insects).
'Lobel' is a largely Dutch Elm Disease resistant cultivar which has been planted relatively frequently. It has a fastigiate habit where the branches tent to sweep upwards.
Trees provide more benefits the older and larger they are.
One of the parents of the hybrid Common Lime, this tree has small round heart-shape leaves. It produces wood that is ideal for carving.
A cultivar maintaining a neat conical shape.
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Tall and slender Italian Alders (Alnus cordata) come into their own in December as they are one of the few deciduous trees to keep their leaves right through the month. They’re still green too, and won't entirely disappear until the striking male catkins appear in February.
You can recognise an Italian Alder by its heart-shaped, or cordate, leaves, and by the small seed-bearing ‘cones’ that you may find scattering the ground around it. But don’t be fooled, this tree is no conifer!
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