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Water Beech
Latin Name:
Carpinus caroliniana
location:
Canada down through Texas across to Florida
The Water Beech, which is also referred as Carpinus caroliniana, can be found more or less around Canada down through Texas across to Florida. It can generally be recognized as a deciduous large shrub or small tree, making it a fabulous plant! In the summer, its foliage changes to a new form, more or less alternate leaf arrangement and in the automn it generally looks like yellow, orange, and red fall color. The Water Beech (Carpinus caroliniana) grows flowers that are monoecious with male and female flowers on the same plant and contains fruits that are a nutlet subtended by a 3-winged, leaf-like bract. It has a beautiful Bark, where a special pattern can be found, smooth, gray bark on it. An interesting information to note about its culture is that transplants from containers Also, an inconvinient with the Water Beech can be that leaf diseases We can easily recognize a Carpinus caroliniana having its small, imbricate buds, 0.25" long. The Water Beech's reproduction is very special since it will do it by seed, but requires stratification
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