General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Plant Height: 8 Feet
Leaves: Good fall color
Unusual foliage color
Deciduous
Fruit: Pops open explosively when ripe
Fruiting Time: Late winter or early spring
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Orange
Pink
Red
Bi-Color: Wine red
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Flower Time: Late winter or early spring
Propagation: Other methods: Other: Budwood is taken and grafted onto Hamamelis vernalis.

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Common names
  • Big Leaf Witch Hazel
  • Leonard's Witch Hazel
  • Witch Hazel

Photo Gallery
Location: Green Spring Gardens (Outdoors, Northern Virginia)
Date: Late winter (almost 2021)
Looks really nice with the red flowers :)
Location: South Misssisspi.
Date: 2014-08-01
Photo courtesy Alan Cressler and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower
Location: South Mississippi
Date: 2014-08-01
Photo courtesy Alan Cressler and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower

Date: 2014-11-17
Photo Courtesy of Jane Unger, Hoot Owl Hollow Nursery, New Marshf

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