European hornbeam
Carpinus betulus
In Dutch: Haagbeuk
TreesCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 15 to 25 m
- Spread
- 12 to 15 m
- Full grown after
- 20 to 30 years
- Sun
- Sun to full shade
- Soil
- Moist, ideally loam or clay
- Water
- Average: moist but not waterlogged
- Maintenance
- Low: a free-standing tree needs no routine pruning
- Flowers
- April and May, green catkins, inconspicuous
- For bees
- Little: the wind carries the catkins' pollen
- Hay fever
- Moderately allergenic, April and May
- Leaves
- Drop in autumn
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- No
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- About €1.20 to €2.50 each, 60-80 cm, bare-root
- Price, grown
- About €16 to €18 each, 150-200 cm, in a pot
Through the year
- Leaf
- April to November
- Flower
- April to May
- Fruit
- August to November