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[14] [15] Hamamelis water, also called white hazel or witch hazel water prepared from a steam-distillation process using leaves, bark or twigs, is a clear, colorless liquid containing 13–15% ethanol having the odor of the essential oil, but with no tannins present. [14] [15] Essential oil components, such as carvacrol and eugenol, may be ...
Hamamelis virginiana, known as witch-hazel, common witch-hazel, American witch-hazel and beadwood, [1] is a species of flowering shrub native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to Minnesota, and south to central Florida to eastern Texas.
Fothergilla gardenii, also known by the common names witch alder, [1] dwarf fothergilla, [2] American wych hazel, [3] and dwarf witchalder [citation needed] is a deciduous shrub in the Hamamelidaceae family. It is one of two species in the genus Fothergilla. [1] [2]
Hamamelidaceae (witch-hazel family) Liquidambar orientalis: Oriental sweetgum Hamamelidaceae (witch-hazel family) Liquidambar styraciflua: sweetgum Hamamelidaceae (witch-hazel family) 611 Loropetalum: fringe flowers; Loropetalum chinense: Chinese fringe flower; Chinese witch hazel Hamamelidaceae (witch-hazel family) Hippocastanaceae: buckeye family
Hamamelidaceae, commonly referred to as the witch-hazel family, is a family of flowering plants in the order Saxifragales. The clade consists of shrubs and small trees positioned within the woody clade of the core Saxifragales. An earlier system, the Cronquist system, recognized Hamamelidaceae in the Hamamelidales order.
"The Hazel Branch" from Grimms' Fairy Tales claims that hazel branches offer the greatest protection from snakes and other things that creep on the earth. In the Grimm tale "Cinderella", a hazel branch is planted by the protagonist at her mother's grave and grows into a tree that is the site where the girl's wishes are granted by birds. [19]
Corylus americana, the American hazelnut [3] or American hazel, [4] is a species of deciduous shrub in the genus Corylus, native to the eastern and central United States and extreme southern parts of eastern and central Canada.
Hamamelis ovalis, the big-leaf witch-hazel, is a species of shrubby witch-hazel mostly found in the southeastern United States. [1] It was first discovered in 2004, and subsequently described in 2005. [2] [1] Its leaves resemble those of the hazelnut, and its flowers can range from red to maroon, mostly open from December till February. [3]