Corylopsis sinensis seed

LATIN NAME: Corylopsis sinensis

COMMON NAME: Chinese Winter Hazel

The Chinese winter hazel is the soft yellow mist of the early garden, and the small, fragrant, bell-shaped flowers hang along the bare branches. The rounded, spreading, deciduous shrub carries the broad, heart-shaped, toothed leaves and the drooping racemes of the small, primrose-yellow, bell-shaped flowers along the bare branches through the late winter and the very early spring, one of the fine, delicate sights of the cool garden. The shrub is a fine, generous presence of the woodland edge and the early border. It is a shrub of the open, sunny to partly shaded, deep, moist, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The Chinese winter hazel is a fine subject of the plant science, and the yellow bells keep showing up in the work on the early-flowering shrubs. The way the flowers open so early on the bare branches has been studied steadily, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the winter-flowering shrubs, the witch-hazel relatives and the members of the witch-hazel family. The broad, heart-shaped leaves and the rounded, spreading habit have also made it a fine garden shrub, and the Chinese winter hazel is a regular subject of the work on the soft yellow mists of the cool world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The Chinese winter hazel is a fine, generous shrub of the woodland edge and the early border. The drooping racemes of the small, primrose-yellow, bell-shaped flowers hang along the bare branches through the late winter and the very early spring, one of the fine, delicate sights of the cool garden, drawing the first bees of the year, and the broad, heart-shaped leaves follow into the fresh, green crown of the spring. The shrub is one of the fine choices for the woodland garden, the early border and the specimen planting, and it has been written about in the horticultural and the botanical papers for the yellow bells and the early ways. It is a fine, generous shrub of the open, sunny to partly shaded, deep, moist, well-drained garden.

Give the shrub a sheltered, cool corner and a little leaf mould, and the early bells will come each year.

To grow the Chinese winter hazel from seed, sow the small, brown seeds just below the surface of a pot of damp, free-draining soil, keep the pot in a cool, bright spot and water gently, then set the young plants out in the open ground. The seedlings come up in their own good time and grow on steadily. With the sun or the light shade and the deep, moist, well-drained ground, the yellow mist will hang through the late winter in the years ahead.

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