Carpinus caroliniana Medicinal beloved for thin-skinned

beloved for thin-skinned

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A plant of wet places in the wild

The tung oil tree is a handsome medium-sized deciduous tree

Carpinus caroliniana Medicinal beloved for thin-skinnedCarpinus caroliniana is a native tree that hides its best feature in plain sight, a smooth, gray, sinewy bark that ripples over the trunk like the muscles of a flexed arm, giving the common names musclewood and ironwood. This small, slow, dense understory tree of eastern North America carries fine, birch like leaves and a rounded, layered crown. The wood beneath that muscled bark is famously hard and heavy, the reason ironwood stuck as a name. In the