| Latin name: | Ostrya virginiana (Mill.) K. Koch |
| Botanical family: | Betulaceae |
| Growth habit: | Tree |
| Vernacular name(s): | hophornbeam (Eng.)
ostryer de virginie, bois de fer (Fr.)
ma'nanons' (Ojibwa) |
| Uses: | | • | Wood : | Decoction used for rheumatic pain or tuberculosis [Ojibwa 91]. Decoction boiled with Thuja occidentalis and used as a cough syrup [Ojibwa 47, 91]. Wood from the heart of branches boiled and decoction taken in kidney troubles. Mixed with Lycopodium obscurum and twigs of Picea glauca in a decoction used for steaming stiff joints in rheumatism [Ojibwa 47]. |
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