blue beech
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Related to blue beech: American hornbeam
blue beech
n.
A hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana) native to eastern and central North America.
[From the bluish-gray color of its bark .]
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Pawpaw (Asimina triloba), blue beech (Carpinus caroliniana), Ironwood (Ostrya virginiana), and grape (Vitis spp.
Out of the blue Beech gets a call from old flame Veronica (Lesley Dunlop).
And no forestry-school graduate is ever likely to forget the tribulations of sorting out American hornbeam (AKA blue beech, musclewood, or ironwood) from American hophornbeam (AKA ironwood).
This periodic flooding with slow drying provides a richly diverse overstory of mixed hardwoods: shellbark hickory, pecan, slippery elm, sweetgum, hackberry, persimmon, pawpaw, possumhaw, blue beech, pumpkin ash, and the great oaks: bur, Shumard, overcup, and swamp chestnut.
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