fragrant winterhazel Hamamelidaceae Corylopsis glabrescens

Leaf:Alternate, simple, broadly ovate, cordate base, 2 to 5 inches long, bristly serrated, sunken veins give the leaf a wrinkled appearance, dark green to blue-green above, paler beneath.
Flower:Attractive, fragrant, pale yellow, 1/2 inch long, in hanging clusters 1 to 2 inches long, appear before the leaves in early spring.
Fruit:Small, dry, 2-valved capsule.
Twig:Slender, gray-brown, speckled in raised lenticels; buds large and stalked, flower buds broadly ovate, pointed, buds initally yellow-green and becoming reddish.
Bark:Light gray-brown, smooth, becoming scaly with age.
Form:A many branched, widely spreading, small shrub up to 15 feet in height and similar spread.

leaf flower fruit twig bark form map

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