Ostrya carpinifolia
Ostrya carpinifolia
Firek
Tree up to 15 m. Young shoots brown, covered with long hairs. Old trunks with dark brown, fissured bark coming off in flakes. Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, acuminate, 4.5-9 x 2.2-4.6 cm, very sharply biserrate with 9-20 pairs of veins, secondary teeth 2-4 between each pair of primary teeth, cuneate to subcordate at base, hairy when young, glabrescent except for hairs on veins. Petioies 0.5-0.8 cm, densely hairy. Fruiting catkins to 6 em. Involucre oblong-ovoid, acuminate, pale reddishyellow- haired at base, strongly veined, to 20 mm in fruit. Nut ovoid, 4-5 mm, pointed, yellowish-brown, smooth, glabrous, obscurely veined. Fl. 3. Deciduous forests or scrub, in open Pinus brutia and P. nigra forest, very often on dry stony hillsides , 50-1700 m.
S. Europe from S. France to Bulgaria, W. Syria, Transcaucasia. Medit. element.
