[HPFGU-OTChatter] Whomping Willow = Hornbeam Tree

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God is the Healing Force]

[Steve B]:
| Not that it really matters to anyone, but I was in the book store the
| other day and saw a coffee table picture book titled 'Trees', and just
| as the title implied it was a book filled with pictures of /trees/.
| (who knew?)
| 
| As I flipped through it I saw the absolute spitting image of the
| Whomping Willow as seem in the movies, except it wasn't a willow it
| was a Hornbeam. Not just any Hornbeam though as, for the most part,
| they just look like ordinary trees. This hornbeam had short extremely
| thick trunk and short thick main branches, but then instead of
| sub-branches, it had clusters of thin willow like branches sprouting
| from the main heavy branches. In other words exactly as you see the
| Whomping Willow in the movies.

[Lee]:
Hmm--Viktor's wand was Hornbeam...maybe it was the type you saw.  Olivander
would probably never use that type of wood. <Grin>

Cheers,

Lee :-)