European hornbeam
Carpinus betulus L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 15 m
- wide
- 11 m
Betulaceae
Also called Hornbeam, Caucasian Hornbeam, Common Hornbeam
Formerly Carpinus carpinizza, Carpinus caucasica, Carpinus intermedia, Carpinus nervata, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 12 m to 18 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 9.1 m to 12 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Hainbuche
- Bulgarian
- Обикновен габър
- Romanian
- Carpen
- Finnish
- valkopyökki, euroopanvalkopyökki
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Agnbøk
- Dutch
- Haagbeuk, haagbeuk
- Swedish
- Avenbok
- Asturian
- carpe
- Belarusian
- Граб звычайны
- Czech
- habr obecný
- Danish
- Almindelig Avnbøg
- Esperanto
- Eŭropa karpeno
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Carpinus betulus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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