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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Ornamental trees
  • Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:13:57 -0500


On Feb 2, 2010, at 9:09 AM, Kathryn Mathews wrote:

There are a number of mature ironwood trees on a college campus near my
home. I consider them very beautiful. They are said to be very slow
growing.
Kathryn Mathews
Northfield, MInnesota

-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Douglas Woodard
Sent: 01/31/2010 9:52 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Ornamental trees

Ironwood/hop-hornbeam, Ostrya virginiana, is a small tree growing to about
40 feet reputed moderately ornamental (I've only seen it growing in the
woods as an understory tree).


I've seen it as an understory tree (I'm pretty sure I'm thinking of the same tree, my identification skills are sadly lacking), and also find it beautiful; I'm not sure how long lived it is, as in the woodlot I rarely see large ones, and do sometimes find dead ones that were not very large. Maybe they survive longer in the open, or maybe the soil in my woodlot isn't actually very hospitable to them (much of the woodlot is intermittently wet).

The dead ones make fantastic firewood.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale







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