| Scientific Name: | Carpinus japonica |
| Common Name: | Japanese hornbeam |
| Family Name: | Betulaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 7 - 10m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Street (boulevard tree), Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Catkin (ament), Green, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Nut, Yellow, Red, Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, lanceolate, most blades 9-11cm long x 3-5cm wide, heavily veined to appear pleated (20-24 pairs of parallel sunken veins), margins deeply serrate with caudate tips; flowers in green catkins ~6cm long; fruit are the tiny nuts that drop from the dry, hop-like papery ornamental catkins. Winter ID: twigs red-brown with vertically elongated, light brown lenticels; buds alternate, conical, up to 9mm long, ~20 scales (older twigs with larger flower buds); catkins on ground below small tree. | |