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Indigenous Plants & Native Uses in the Northeast

HOP HORNBEAM HOP HORNBEAM
(Ostrya virginiana)
HOP HORNBEAM

HOP HORNBEAM

Medicine: Chippewa used the wood at the heart of the branch in making a cough syrup, and in a medicine for kidney disorders.

Technology: he wood is very strong as the name implies and was used for the frames for dwellings, and from the crooks of branches, pothooks were made to suspend cooking vessels over fires.

Note: Also called Iron woodMedicine


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