Bark – smooth and reddish-brown when young; later breaking into thin, shaggy plates that give it a characteristic shreddy appearance. Eastern hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana), is also referred to as ...

THERE ARE TWO members of the birch family that often go unnoticed in the understory of our forests: the Eastern hop hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana) and American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana).