Witch-hazel

It is endemic to China.

Disanthus is a genus containing two species of flowering plants in the family Hamamelidaceae. It can be found in China, Japan and northern Vietna.

Winter hazel is a genus of nearly 30 species of shrubs, native to eastern Asia. They grow to 2 to 6 m tall, often with a crown wider than the shrub's height. The leaves are ovate with an acute apex and a serrated margin. The flowers are produced in late winter in pendulous racemes with 5-30 flowers; each flower has five pale yellow petals. The fruit is a dry capsule, containing two glossy black seeds.

In the forest, where exbucklandia usually grows, the trunk is single, straight, and free of branches for 9 to 18 m. Exbucklandia s are evergreen trees. The leaf blade is simple, and sometimes has three pointed lobes, or rarely, five. It is thickly leathery and its margin is entire. The venation is palmate, with the secondary veins radiating from the apex of the petiole. Each inflorescence has 7 to 16 flowers and is located in the axil of a leaf. The flowers are small and bisexual. The fruit is a 4-valved capsule. Each locule contains five to seven seeds. The upper four or five are sterile and wingless. The lowest one or two are fertile and narrowly winged. Estimates of the number of species range from two to four. They are medium to large trees whose natural range is from eastern India through southern China and southward through the Malay Peninsula. A few have been grown in the southernmost parts of the United States.

Witch alder are a tiny genus of flowering shrubs that have been domesticated as garden ornamentals. Fragrant, with bottlebrush-shaped flowers, they contain terpenes that not only make them smell nice, but deter browsers such as deer.

Chinese witch hazel comprise a small genus of evergreen shrubs and small trees. The white or pink flowers are fragrant with long spider-like petals and bloom in winter or early spring. Some cultivars have colorful foliage. The beautiful flowers and sometimes colorful foliage make these plants great additions to a woodland garden.

Witch hazels comprise a small genus of flowering shrubs and small trees that are popular ornamental plants. Flowers are yellow or orange-red and have four ribbon-like petals. The Latin name translates to "together with fruit" which refers to the fact that both the flowers and fruit are often on the plant at the same time.

Winter-hazel are a genus of evergreen shrubs that can be found in the wild across East and Southeast Asia. Some of the smaller species are popular ornamental garden plants that are prized for their year-round foliage and their resistance to drought, heat, insects, and disease. Numerous cultivars are available.

Parrotiopsis is a genus of deciduous shrub or small tree in the witch hazel family.

Flowers of rhodoleia are bird-pollinated. Nectar-foraging birds including Japanese white-eyes and fork-tailed sunbirds, avidly visit the flowers, which they also pollinate in the process.