Object Details
- Description
- The hoptree gets its name from the fact that its bitter fruit was once used as a substitute for hops in brewing beer. With the current crazy for bitter, IPA beers, it just may be again!
- The hoptree is Endangered in New Jersey and New York, and Threatened in Pennsylvania.
- Hardiness
- -30 - 30 F
- Attracts
- Birds
- Bloom Time
- June to July
- Ethnobotanical Uses
- Fruit once used for brewing beer.
- Provenance
- Uncertain
- Accession Number
- 2011-0990A
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Life Form
- Deciduous tree
- Average Height
- 15-20'
- Bark Characteristics
- Brown. Unpleasant scent when bruised.
- Bloom Characteristics
- Clusters of greenish-white flowers grow on the ends of branches (terminal cymes). Have orange blossom-like scent.
- Fall Color
- Yellow
- Foliage Characteristics
- Alternate, trifoliate leaves with serrate margins. Leaflets are oval to ovate and 2-5" long.
- Fruit Characteristics
- Pendulous seed clusters of circular samaras mature to brown in late summer and persist through most of winter. 1" diameter.
- Structure
- Round; vase
- Range
- Central to E US; SE Canada
- Habitat
- Open woods, glades, ravines, thickets, prairies
- See more items in
- Smithsonian Gardens Tree Collection
- On Display
- National Museum of Natural History
- Common Name
- Common Hoptree
- Hop Tree
- Shrub Trefoil
- Wafer-Ash
- Stinking Ash
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Magnoliidae
- Superorder
- Rosanae
- Order
- Sapindales
- Family
- Rutaceae
- Genus
- Ptelea
- Species
- trifoliata
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Topic
- Trees
- Living Collections
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2011-0990A
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ax7a0e41483-b57b-4e02-a868-bfb4b19c5610
