Ostrya

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Ostrya

Ostrya is a genus

Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
of eight to ten small deciduous

Deciduous

Deciduous means falling off at maturity or tending to fall off and is typically used in reference to trees or shrubs that lose their leaves seasonally and to the shedding of other plant structures such as petals after flowering or fruit when ripe....
tree

TREE

TREE was a Boston hardcore punk band formed in the summer of 1990. They were active in the Boston music scene until disbanding in 2002....
s belonging to the birch family Betulaceae

Betulaceae

Betulaceae, or the Birch Family, includes six genera of deciduous nut -bearing trees and shrubs, including the birches, alders, hazels, hornbeams and hop-hornbeams, numbering about 130 species....
. Its common name is Hophornbeam in American English and Hop-hornbeam in British English. It may also be called ironwood

Ironwood

Ironwood may refer to...
, a name shared with a number of other plants.

The genus is native in southern Europe

Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, southwest and eastern Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
, and North

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
and Central America

Central America

Central America is a central geography region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmus portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast....
. They have a conical or irregular crown and a scaly, rough bark.

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Ostrya is a genus

Genus

Deciduous

TREE

TREE was a Boston hardcore punk band formed in the summer of 1990. They were active in the Boston music scene until disbanding in 2002....
s belonging to the birch family Betulaceae

Betulaceae

Ironwood

Ironwood may refer to...
, a name shared with a number of other plants.

The genus is native in southern Europe

Europe

Asia

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
and Central America

Central America

Birch

Birch is the name of any tree of the genus Betula , in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae....
-like leaves

Leaf

In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant Organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues....
3-10 cm long. The flower

Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
s are produced in spring, with male catkins 5-10 cm long and female catkins 2-5 cm long. The fruit

Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
form in pendulous clusters 3-8 cm long with 6-20 seed

Seed

A seed is a small Plant embryogenesis plant enclosed in a covering called the seed coat, usually with some Food storage. It is the product of the ripened ovule of gymnosperm and angiosperm plants which occurs after fertilization and some growth within the mother plant....
s; each seed is a small nut

Nut (fruit)

Nut is a general term for the large, dry, oily seed or fruit of some plant. While a wide variety of dried seeds and fruits are called nuts, only a certain number of them are considered by biologists to be true nuts....
2-4 mm long, fully enclosed in a bladder-like involucre.

The wood

Wood

Wood is an organic material; in the strict sense wood is produced as secondary xylem in the stems of woody plants, notably trees but also shrubs, etc....
is very hard and heavy; the name Ostrya is derived from the Greek word 'ostrua', "bone

Bone

Bones are rigid organ that form part of the endoskeleton of vertebrates. They function to move, support, and protect the various organs of the body, produce red blood cell and white blood cells and store minerals....
-like", referring to the very hard wood. Regarded as a weed tree by some foresters, this hard and stable wood was historically used to fashion plane soles.

Ostrya species are used as food plants by the larva

Larva

A larva is a young form of animal with indirect developmental biology, going through or undergoing metamorphosis .The larva can look completely different from the adult form, for example, a caterpillar differs from a butterfly....
e of some Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is an order of insect that includes moths and butterfly. It is one of the most speciose orders in the class Insecta, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterfly, skipper , and Hedylidae....
species including Winter Moth

Winter Moth

The Winter Moth is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is an abundant species of Europe and the Near East and one of very few Lepidoptera of temperate regions in which the adults are active in the depth of winter....
(Operophtera brumata), Walnut Sphinx (Amorpha juglandis) and Coleophora ostryae.

Species

Ostrya carpinifolia Scop. - European Hop-hornbeam
Ostrya chisosensis Correll - Chisos Hophornbeam, Big Bend Hophornbeam
Ostrya guatemalensis (Winkler) Rose - Central American Hophornbeam
Ostrya japonica
Ostrya japonica

Ostrya japonica is a species of tree in the Betulaceae family growing to 25 m tall. It is native to Japan, Korea and China....
Sarg. - Japanese Hop-hornbeam
Ostrya knowltonii Coville - Knowlton Hophornbeam, Western Hophornbeam, Wolf Hophornbeam
Ostrya multinervis Rehd. - Central Chinese Hop-hornbeam
Ostrya rehderiana
Ostrya rehderiana

Ostrya rehderiana is a species of plant in the Betulaceae family. It is Endemism to China....
Chun - Zhejiang Hop-hornbeam
Ostrya virginiana
Ostrya virginiana

Ostrya virginiana , is a species of Ostrya Indigenous to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Manitoba and eastern Wyoming, southeast to northern Florida and southwest to eastern Texas....
(Mill.) K. Koch - Eastern Hophornbeam, American Hophornbeam, Ironwood.
Ostrya yunnanensis Hu - Yunnan Hop-hornbeam
† Ostrya oregoniana (fossil)