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Hamamelis virginiana

 
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Hamamelis virginiana - collen ystwyth, Virginian witch hazel, American witch hazel, snapping hazel nut, spotted alder, winter bloom
Image: Moore, Dawn - NBGW
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Common name: collen ystwyth, Virginian witch hazel, American witch hazel, snapping hazel nut, spotted alder, winter bloom
Family: Hamamelidaceae (Witch-hazel)
Distribution: Mexico to U.S.A.
Habitat: Forest
IUCN Red list: Least concern
Hardiness: (H6) Hardy-very cold winter. -20 to -15°C (USDA 6b/7a)
Life form: Deciduous tree • Coeden gollddail
Geirdarddiad / Etymology: Hamamelis (ham-uh-MEE-lis): Greek; for a tree with pear-shaped fruits, possibly a medlar.
Geirdarddiad / Etymology: virginiana (vir-jin-ee-AN-uh): Of Virginia, U.S.A.
Description: An erect large shrub up to 5m high (or occasionally a small tree up to 10m high) with smooth, broadly-oval, obovate, or nearly-round leaves, up to 15cm long, which open light green before becoming dark green. Clusters of sweetly-scented flowers with slightly-twisted, crimped, pale yellow petals, about 16mm long, appear from mid-autumn to late autumn, the flowers emerging while the leaves are still green and remaining as the leaves turn golden yellow and fall..
Links: Royal Horticultural Society

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