This small tree to large shrub has a short greyish trunk with a dense upright branching that forms a rounded crown. It has dark green corrugated ovate leaves that turn orange-yellow during autumn and the small flowers appear in catkins during spring.  

Hardiness zones 5 to 9 

Carpinus turczaninovii is naturally found in Japan from Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu and extending to Korea and China growing in woodlands on the lower mountains. 

It prefers an open sunny to shaded position and grows in well-drained moist fertile soils including limestone base loams and is  frost tolerant but drought tender. 

The Korean Hornbeam is grown for its attractive foliage and rounded habit. It is planted long borders for screening or used as an understory tree in a woodland setting. It is suitable for inland and low-mountain regions establishing in 4-7 years and is long-lived.  It is also commonly grown as a bonsai subject with a special interest to its fluted greyish trunk and pleated leaves. ID 3459

Carpinus (kar-PINE-us) turczaninovii (TURK-shah-nee-NOH-vee-eye)

Betulaceae (BE-tul-AY-see-ee)
Birch