About 60-70 species including: Celtis australis - European Hackberry Celtis bungeana Bunge's Hackberry Celtis caucasica - Caucasian Hackberry Celtis labilis - Hubei Hackberry Celtis koraiensis - Korean Hackberry Celtis jessoensis - Japanese Hackberry Celtis laevigata - Southern Hackberry Celtis occidentalis - Common hackberry Celtis reticulata - Netleaf hackberry Celtis sinensis - Chinese Hackberry Celtis tenuifolia - Georgia Hackberry
HackberryCeltis is a genus of about 60-70 species of deciduoustrees in the elm family Ulmaceae, widespread in warm temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, in southern Europe, southern and eastern Asia, and central North America. They are generally medium-sized trees, reaching 10-25 m tall, rarely up to 40 m tall.
The fruit is a small drupe 6-10 mm diameter, edible in many species, with a dryish but sweet, sugary consistency, reminiscent of a date.
No doubt the oldest existing Cajun music group, the Hackberry Ramblers were founded in 1930 by fiddler Luderin Darbone, who was born in January 1913 in the town of Evangeline, in Acadia Parish.
By the Great Depression, Darbone was living in Hackberry, in Cameron Parish, where he played music with a neighbor, accordionist and guitarist Edwin Duhon.
As Darbone explained, "He knew Cajun songs and I knew hillbilly tunes" — the resulting hybrid was Cajun string band music, a style also pioneered by Cajun artists like Leo Soileau, Happy Fats, and Doc Guidry.
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