fragrant winterhazel Hamamelidaceae Corylopsis glabrescens Franch. & Sav. Listen to the Latin   symbol: --
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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. 

Corylopsis glabrescens is planted in the highlighted USDA hardiness zones to the left and is not known to widely escape cultivaton.

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