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Corylopsis spicata, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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Corylopsis spicata

Winter hazel · also Spike winter-hazel

492
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
2
cities
3.5 in
median trunk (9 cm, 20 measured)

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Corylopsis spicata, also known as winter hazel, is a shrub in the witch hazel family native to Southern Japan. It features alternate, simple leaves on thin, flexible, horizontal stems, and yellow flowers bloom in late winter and early spring.

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
    489—3.5 in
  2. Boston · United States
    3——

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

Traits

Blooms
Feb, Mar, Apr

Trunk diameters across every city: median 3.5 in, mean 3.6 in, 90th percentile 3.8 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Other Corylopsis in the catalogue

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

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