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This shrub, long known in cultivation, consists of several crooked branching trunks from one root, 4 to 6 inches in diameter, 10 to 12 feet in height, with a smooth grey bark, leaves 3 to 5 inches long and about 3 inches wide, on short petioles, alternate, oval or obovate, acuminate, obliquely subcordate at the base, the margin crenate, dentate, scabrous, with raised spots underneath, pinnately veined and having stellate hairs.



One of the most over-looked winter flowering shrubs is the witch hazel. What I particularly like about this plant is its unique flowers, unusual flowering season and pleasant fragrance. Have you ever noticed that almost all winter flowering plants have fragrance. Of course, that is 'Mother Nature's' way of attracting insects for winter pollination. It benefits the home gardener by providing nice garden fragrance during the winter, and the advantage of having cut fragrant flowers for use in indoor winter flower arrangements. The witch hazels offer all of these attributes. The flowers have a unique shape, they appear rather spidery and look just right on the branches of the plant.