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Celtis occidentalis, commonly known as the common hackberry, is a large deciduous tree native to North America. It is also known as the nettletree, beaverwood, northern hackberry, and American hackberry. [4] It is a moderately long-lived [4] hardwood [4] with a light-colored wood, yellowish gray to light brown with yellow streaks. [5]
Prunus padus, known as bird cherry, hackberry, hagberry, or Mayday tree, is a flowering plant in the rose family. It is a species of cherry, a deciduous small tree or large shrub up to 16 metres (52 ft) tall. It is the type species of the subgenus Padus, which have flowers in racemes.
Celtis laevigata is a medium-sized tree native to North America. Common names include sugarberry, southern hackberry, or in the southern U.S. sugar hackberry or just hackberry. Sugarberry is easily confused with common hackberry (C. occidentalis) where the range overlaps.
Celtis reticulata, with common names including netleaf hackberry, [2] western hackberry, Douglas hackberry, [3] netleaf sugar hackberry, palo blanco, and acibuche, [4] is a small- to medium-sized deciduous tree native to western North America.
Celtis species are generally medium-sized trees, reaching 10–25 metres (33–82 feet) tall, rarely up to 40 m (130 ft) tall. The leaves are alternate, simple, 3–15 centimetres (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 –6 inches) long, ovate-acuminate, and evenly serrated margins. Diagnostically, Celtis can be very similar to trees in the Rosaceae and other rose motif ...
The tree was 18 m in height with a circumference at breast height of 5 m in 2013. [9] In Islamic tradition, hackberry trees are considered holy and amulets made from their wood are employed to exorcise demons. The hackberry trees on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem are said to be the oldest in the world. [10]
Celtis sinensis (English: Japanese hackberry, [2] ... It is a tree that grows to 20 m tall, with deciduous leaves and gray bark. The fruit is a globose drupe, ...
Celtis, genus of deciduous trees known as hackberries; Prunus padus, a species of cherry tree; ... Hackberry Group, a cluster of ruins in Hovenweep National Monument;