Carpinus betulus
European Hornbeam
Betulaceae

Located on the north side of Mirror Lake near Manchester Hall.

  • leaves deciduous, ovate to oblong, doubly serrated edge
  • buds alternate, imbricate, curved slightly
  • buds long, narrow and appressed to stem
  • fruit attached to three-pointed bract, brown
  • fruit borne in hanging raceme
  • bark steal gray, "muscular" look and feel
  • habit large rounded tree
  • tree resembles beech superficially


View Carpinus betulus page in the UConn Plant Database

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