Carpinus japonica, the Japanese hornbeam, is a hornbeam endemic to Japan but cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
It is a deciduous tree growing to tall with leaves that are longer and darker than the European hornbeam (Carpinus betulus). The leaves are dark, glossy and slender, with 20-24 pairs of parallel sunken veins; every third tooth is whisker-tipped. The prominent catkins are green turning to brown.Iwatsuki, K., Boufford, D.E. & Ohba, H. (eds.) (2006). Flora of Japan IIa: 1-550. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.Blume, Carl (Karl) Ludwig von. 1851. Museum Botanicum 1: 308
This tree has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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