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Corylopsis pauciflora, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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Corylopsis pauciflora

Buttercup witch hazel · also Winter hazel, Buttercup winter-hazel

SpreadingDeciduous
77
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
4
cities
2.0 in
median trunk (5 cm, 1 measured)

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Corylopsis pauciflora is a deciduous, spreading shrub that grows to 1.5m tall and 2.5m wide. It produces masses of pale yellow flowers in early spring, followed by leaves that emerge bronze and turn rich green. It is cultivated as an ornamental in temperate gardens.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Tokyo · Japan
    67——
  2. Amsterdam · Netherlands
    6——
  3. Boston · United States
    3——
  4. Helsinki · Finland
    1—2.0 in

No city in this list records planting dates for this species, so age is blank throughout.

Traits

Form
Spreading
Foliage
Deciduous
Mature height
4.9 ft
Canopy spread
8.2 ft
Blooms
Mar, Apr

Trunk diameters across every city: median 2.0 in, mean 2.0 in, 90th percentile 2.0 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Central Korean deciduous forests
  • Hokkaido deciduous forests
  • Nihonkai montane deciduous forests
  • Taiheiyo montane deciduous forests

Other Corylopsis in the catalogue

3 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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