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Hornbeams Carpinus

Every rated Carpinus record is fire-resistant — 3 of 3 records, including the genus rated as a group; none is condemned. These counts describe the cited records — 3 records carrying 16 evidence rows from 12 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.

Rated as a group: blue beech Carpinus Fire-resistant Limited evidence 1 source rate the genus as a whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never override a species record.
Fire-resistant

2 species

About hornbeams

Corpus context. Carpinus is the directory's #269 largest of 550 genus groups: 3 records carrying 16 evidence rows from 12 cited sources, recorded as tree , hardy across USDA zones 5–5. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.

Where rated hornbeams grow

Tagged as growing in 34 states.

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