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  2. Witch-hazel - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Ulmus glabra - Wikipedia

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    The word "wych" (also spelled "witch") comes from the Old English wice, meaning pliant or supple, which also gives definition to wicker and weak. Jacob George Strutt 's 1822 book, Sylva Britannica attests that the Wych Elm was sometimes referred to as the "Wych Hazel", a name now applied to the unrelated species Hamamelis , commonly called ...

  4. Hamamelis virginiana - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Celtic sacred trees - Wikipedia

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    Thought a fairy tree in both Ireland and Wales, wood from the hazel was sacred to poets and was thus a taboo fuel on any hearth. Heralds carried hazel wands as badges of office. Witches' wands are often made of hazel, as are divining rods, used to find underground water. In Cornwall the hazel was used in the millpreve, the magical adder stones ...

  6. Hamamelis japonica - Wikipedia

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    Hamamelis japonica, Japanese witch-hazel, is a species of flowering plant in the family Hamamelidaceae, native to Japan but widely cultivated in temperate situations elsewhere. A horizontally spreading, hardy deciduous shrub or small tree, it is notable for the slightly fragrant yellow blooms which clothe its naked branches in the depths of ...

  7. Is Witch Hazel Bad for Your Skin? We’re Settling It Once and ...

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    Witch hazel has been a staple in beauty aisles for years—the name being synonymous with products from Thayers and T.N. Dickison. While some use it as a tried and true toner, others claim that it ...

  8. Hamamelis vernalis - Wikipedia

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    Hamamelis vernalis, the Ozark witchhazel [1] (or witch-hazel) [2] is a species of flowering plant in the witch-hazel family Hamamelidaceae, native to the Ozark Plateau in central North America, in Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. [3] It is a large deciduous shrub growing to 4 m (13 ft) tall.

  9. Hamamelidaceae - Wikipedia

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    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.