Ironwood is a common name for a large number of woods that have a reputation for hardness. Usage of the name may (or may not) include the tree that yields this wood. Some of the species involved are: ...
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Giant Ironwood - profile
Scientific name: Choricarpia subargentea
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Description ...
Desert Ironwood
A single species, this handsome desert tree grows slowly to form a broad, pleasing crown of gray-green leaves. In late spring, abundant lavender sweet-pea-like blossoms attract bees.
ironwood is an evergreen tree. It is being used in landscape plantings as a shade tree. The desert ironwood is well adapted to the heat and lack of water of the Sonoran Desert however.
Burma Ironwood is a large deciduous tree to over 18 m high by 60 cm trunk diameter, native of eastern India, Burma and Thailand. Leaves are double-compound, carried on stalks 3-6 cm long.
Casuarina equisetifolia vernac. Horsetail tree , She Oak , Southsea ironwood
Costa Rica, 22 February
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* 14. Ironwood / Id / Ostrya virginiana leaf
7-12 cm long, 4-9 cm wide.
sharp tapering tip.
base narrowly rounded.
margin serrate.
lateral veins, 12 pair or less.
numerous forked lateral veins.
thin texture.
desert ironwood Fabaceae Olneya tesota A. Gray symbol: OLTE
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Persian ironwood tree foliage is attractive in summer and spectacular in its autumn colors.
Usage ...
Glandulosa Ironwood ( Ostrya virginiana )
Glandulosum Ledum ( Ledum glandulosum )
Glaslyn Iris ( Iris ) ...
MOUNTAIN IRONWOOD
Cercocarpus betuloides
General Notes
Very drought tolerant. Fine hairs on seeds are an irritant. SelecTree lists no cultivars of betuloides.
The Persian Ironwood, a closely related tree formerly treated as Hamamelis persica, is now given a genus of its own, as Parrotia persica, as it differs in the flowers not having petals.
Ostrya virginiana--Ironwood, Hop Hornbeam
OSTRYA INSECTS
OSTRYA DISEASES ...
Casuarina equisetifolia, Casuarina muricata (Australian pine, ironwood, horsetail, Family: Casuarinaceae)
Catalpa bignonioides (Southern Catalpa, Indian Bean Tree, Family: Bignoniaceae) ...
Hop-Hornbeam (American), Ironwood Ostrya virginiana
Japanese Carpinus japonica
Horsechestnut
Horsechestnut Aesculus hippocastanum
Double, Nutless Aesculus hippocastanum ‘Baumannii'
Red Flowering Horsechestnut Aesculus × carnea
Hosta ...
Carpinus betulus: hornbeam, European hornbeam, European ironwood. Can grow to 50 ft., but is usually shorter. It has 4 inch leaves and catkins, and drooping clusters of fruit. Its autumn color is yellow-green, and it has grey bark. Hardy in zones 5-7.
Hophornbeam, ironwood (Ostrya virginiana)
Hoptree (Ptelea trifoliata)
Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)
Horsechestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)
Horsechestnut (Aesculus x carnea)
Japanese Flowering Apricot (Prunus mume) ...
Native to the islands off the Southern California coast, Catalina ironwood is a dramatic small tree with fernlike foliage and curiously peeling bark in strips of contrasting browns and grays, interesting to feel.
caroliniana, also has a number of common names, including blue beech (because of the similarity of the bark) and ironwood (because of its hardness).
REYNOSIA SEPTENTRIONALIS - Darling plum, red ironwood
This shrub or small tree with leathery evergreen leaves is native to the Florida coast, from the Keys to St. Augustine and the Everglades to Ft. Myers.
Also known as ironwood, beefwood, she oak and horsetail tree, it bears a superficial resemblance to the conifer genus Pinus because of its small, round, cone-like fruits and its branchlets of scale-like leaves that look like pine needles.
*Carpinus caroliniana - Ironwood
*Diospyros virginiana - Persimmon
Gleditsia triacanthos - Honey Locust
Magnolia macrophylla - Bigleaf Magnolia
*Nyssa aquatica - Water Tupelo
*Nyssa sylvatica - Black Gum
*Quercus laurifolia - Laurel Oak ...
Hypelate trifoliata (White Ironwood)
Koelreuteria bipinnata (Chinese Flame Tree)
Koelreuteria elegans (Flamegold)
Koelreuteria paniculata (Goldenrain Tree)
Litchi chinensis (Litchi, Lytchee) ...
Olneya tesota
Desert ironwood
Fabaceae Family
Compiled by the Master Gardeners
of the University of Arizona Pima County Cooperative Extension.
Hornbeams are in the birch family, & are the European equivalent of the North American ironwood tree, having dense close-grained wood traditionally used for carving wooden bowls, tool handles, flooring, ox yokes, & furniture.
EnglischLemon myrtle, Sweet verbena tree, Lemon scented myrtle, Lemon ironwood
FranzösischMyrte citronnée, Myrte citron Hebräisch
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Hadas limoni ...
This tree is the European cousin of our native Carpinus caroliniana (Ironwood, Blue Beech or American Hornbeam) which is common through the mountainous regions of the state.
Carpinus caroliniana
American Hornbeam, Blue Beech, Ironwood, Musclewood, Water Beech
Betulaceae ...
"Ostrya" is Greek for "hardwood tree" and recognizes the dense wood of the Hop Hornbeams (Western and Eastern) which gives them another common name, "Ironwood".
Fruits: Nutlets enclosed by an inflated bladder, crowded together in a cluster resembling hops.
Notes: This species is often known as ironwood. The hard wood has been used for tool handles.
 See also: Green, May, Pinus, Evergreen, Orange
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