ENTS- I would be surprised if greater specific gravity or density represents greater hardness of wood in all cases---it certainly doesn't in metals and minerals.
Steve On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Timothy Zelazo <[email protected]> wrote: > Carpinus caroliniana is American hornbeam (bluebeech, water beech) and > Ostrya virginiana is Eastern hophornbeam and had the common name "ironwood" > often applied to this species. The Textbook of Dendrology by Harlow and > Harrar Fifth Edition published by McGraw-Hill. This was the info they were > pushing over thirty years ago when I studied forestry. The two trees look > very different in the forest. > > > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Josh Kelly > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Don, >> >> On the contrary, I think I noted hop hornbeam (Ostrya virgiana) in my >> earlier post. >> >> Josh >> >> On Oct 31, 1:11 pm, DON BERTOLETTE <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Josh- >> > >> > I guess that 'ironwood' (aka eastern hophornmeam, American hornbeam, >> Ostrya virginiana; member of the Betulaceae), member of the doesn't rate in >> this exotic group? >> > >> > -Don >> > >> . Learn more.http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pc-scout/default.aspx? >> CBID=wl&ocid=P.<http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pc-scout/default.aspx?%0ACBID=wl&ocid=P.> >> .. >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
