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*Our YouTube channel: *Subscribe:    / @vegetosphere   *Our Facebook page:   / vegetosphere-111504800462589   *Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vegetospher... If you like our original approach, share the Description of the hornbeams: 70 species of hornbeams in the world, but only one in France: the common hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) is part of the Betulaceae family like the birch, the alder and the hazelnut. In Latin, it is Carpinus betulus, it is typically French and European, rather cold continental. It is also found in Turkey and Ukraine. Discreet native of our temperate forests (6% of forest trees in France) and our hedgerows in agricultural regions of France such as Avesnois (59) through hedges in order to separate meadows. Real biodiversity wells! They have practically disappeared because of the land consolidation whose benefits I had learned in agricultural school, at the time we did not talk about biodiversity (80s). It is a rustic social and secondary forest species present in coppice under high forest. It is a stocky, irregular tree with an ovoid crown, rarely exceeding 20 meters (10 m in our gardens, and even less when it is pruned° for 1.50 m in circumference. The lifespan of the tree rarely exceeds 100 years. Easy to recognize with its smooth, ash gray and grooved trunk, like a 'muscular bodybuilder'. • The dead leaves remain attached to the branches for a long time before falling, it is said to be marcescent. They are green and slightly serrated in spring. The greenish flowers are grouped on hanging or erect spikes called catkins without any ornamental interest. The fruit in hanging clusters 3 to 6 cm long of green color which turns yellow-brown. They are called samaras. A homogeneous ivory-white wood which is very hard (hence its English name of hornbeam) and difficult to work. It is an excellent firewood. History and symbolism: Tree rarely mentioned in Greco-Roman mythology because it is discreet, however celebrated by the Celts. Hornbeam comes from the Latin carpinus which gave carpino in Italian and carpe in Spanish. Beware of expressions unrelated to the tree: "Adam's charm is to be naked", "To cast a charm", "to be under the charm", "To carry oneself like a charm". A Hornbeam forest is a hornbeam or hornbeam grove. It is the tree of plant labyrinths, hedges and palisades. Cultivation: It is most often used as a hedge, trimmed or free, as a windbreak, isolated. A very hardy tree, undemanding, which resists cold and heat well. It thrives in a continental climate. It adapts to any sufficiently deep soil. It particularly appreciates cool and semi-shaded places but can also live in the non-violent sun sheltered from cold and drying winds. Planting: In autumn, it is always more favorable. 1/2 or shade, it grows well in full light. It is a typically mesophilic species (versatile). It prefers a moderate continental climate and is resistant to cold and heat. It is mainly found in the East of France. Uses: • Not being absolutely elegant to decorate a garden (It is found in parks). We practice more the hornbeam which is a monospecific hedge of the first order! The hornbeam is interesting because it grows quickly and has an unbeatable cost price. It supports repeated pruning well and branches a lot. It also has deciduous foliage partially marcescent, that is to say that some of the leaves dry and remain on the tree in winter. Finally, it grows in all soils, and tolerates both shade and full sun and it is enough to plant it between 60 cm and 1 meter between each plant depending on the height pruned and maintained. • It is often used to form pruned subjects because it tolerates regular pruning very well. • Very rare in alignment trees or as an ornament in urban areas. • It is one of the best firewoods in the East of France. • Carpentry: Resistance and hardness: plow axles, gear teeth, sledgehammers, tool handles, planes, cutting tables for butchers and pork butchers. • It is also used to make paper pulp. Propagation: Spontaneous sowing Care, fertilization, watering: Fertilization will be nitrogenous with a conifer fertilizer with 3 annual contributions. Toxicity: None, however, some allergies are noted. Diseases and pests: Fungi: Taphrina carpini which is spectacular with anarchic development, the witches' broom. Entomosporiosis with red-black spots on the leaves. Bordeaux mixture treatment. Aphids and caterpillars. Species and varieties: • C. betula ‘Fastigiata’ • C. betula ‘Pendula’ • C. betula ‘Columnaris’ • C. betula ‘Incisa’ • C. betula ‘Purpurea’ • C. betula ‘Quercifolia’