Hornbeam
Hornbeams are relatively small hardwood trees in the genus Carpinus. Though some botanists grouped them with the hazels (Corylus) and hop-hornbeams (Ostrya) in a segregated family, Corylaceae, modern botanists place the hornbeams in the birch subfamily Coryloideae. The 30–40 species occur across much of the north temperate regions, with the greatest number of species in east Asia, particularly China. Only two species occur in Europe, only one in eastern North America, and one in Mesoamerica.Carpinus betulus can be found in Europe, Turkey and Ukraine.
Origin of names
The common English name "hornbeam" derives from the hardness of the woods (likened to horn) and the Old English "beam", a tree (cognate with German "Baum"). The American hornbeam is also occasionally known as blue-beech, ironwood, or musclewood, the first from the resemblance of the bark to that of the American beech Fagus grandifolia, the other two from the hardness of the wood and the muscular appearance of the trunk, respectively. The botanic name for the genus, Carpinus, is the original Latin name for the European species.
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by Neneh Cherry
Hornbeam
by: Neneh CherrySporting hot jeans
[Incomprehensible]
Hard black soil called the chernozem
Driving uptown with some per diems
Won't somebody check the hem
Falling down this dress again
Sporting hot jeans on the butt again
Got to get home before the mayhem
Won't somebody check the tide
Before we run and hide again
Got a hornbeam growing in the garden
Always climbing the tree is the morphine
Got a view of the love and I'm chillin'
Got a view of the hem of the horizon
Stole the wheel off a car called a Porsche
While I was chewing the fat that disturbs me
It's always there because
We play the game the way we are
I got a view on outer space paparrazi
It's always there 'cause I know that they watch me
I bathe away in darkness
All because I'm paranoid
I got a hornbeam growing in the garden
Always climbing the tree is the morphine
Got a view of the love and I'm chillin'
Got a view of the hem of the horizon
Won't you
(Unbutton my stuff)
Won't you
(Come and zip me up)
Won't you
(Unbutton my stuff)
Won't you
(Come and zip me up)
Chauvinistic femme come arousing
Got a groove in the hem of your hygiene
Won't somebody break my boundary
Leave that femme for another day
I like a brain and I like my bimbo
I like 'em vain let 'em lick my limbo
The boldest kiss the mayhem
Slipping down the waterside
Mum and dad are feeling kind of hurt
To get me back they got to get me first
Am I guilty quench my thirst
Spill my wine and French, I quim
Got a hornbeam growing in the garden
Always climbing the tree is the morphine
Got a view of the love and I'm chillin'
Got a view of the hem of the horizon
Won't you
(Unbutton my stuff)
Won't you
(Come and zip me up)
Won't you
(Unbutton my stuff)
Won't you
(Come and zip me up)
Won't you
(Unbutton my stuff)
Won't you
(Come and zip me up)
Won't you
(Unbutton my stuff)
Won't you
(Come and zip me up)
Won't you
(Unbutton my stuff)
Won't you
(Come and zip me up)
Won't you
(Unbutton my stuff)
Won't you
(Come and zip me up)