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Ironwood Carpinus
Latin Name:
Carpinus caroliniana
location:
Canada down through Texas across to Florida
The Ironwood (
Carpinus, also called in Latin Carpinus caroliniana, can be found more or less around Canada down through Texas across to Florida. To recognize it it is mainly a deciduous large shrub or small tree, making it a fabulous plant! In the summer, its foliage looks like alternate leaf arrangement and in the automn its foliage then is yellow, orange, and red fall color. The Ironwood (
Carpinus (Carpinus caroliniana) also has flowers being monoecious with male and female flowers on the same plant and grows fruits that are a nutlet subtended by a 3-winged, leaf-like bract. It has a special bark, where a special pattern can be found, smooth, gray bark on it. A fact to point at regarding the way it is cultured is that transplants from containers However, an inconvinient with the Ironwood (
Carpinus can be that leaf diseases A way to identify a Carpinus caroliniana having its small, imbricate buds, 0.25" long. The Ironwood (
Carpinus's propagation method is uncommon since it is mainly done by seed, but requires stratification
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