What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 12 June 2022.

Habrová was built in 1976.

Continuing the tree theme, a habr is a hornbeam (Carpinus), a hardwood tree which is mainly used for ornamental purposes.

There are many species of the hornbeam, but the only one that exists in the Czech Republic is the ‘Carpinus betulus’, the European or common hornbeam.

And the tree has also given its name to a small settlement in the North Plzeň region: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habrov%C3%A1…Small means small: it had 18 inhabitants in 2011.