| Photo Information |
| Copyright: ulrike gruber (ulli1) (37) |
| Genre: Plants |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-02-08 |
| Categories: Trees |
| Exposure: f/4.3, 1/500 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-02-11 5:33 |
| Viewed: 440 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Hamamelis mollis is a species of witch-hazel native to central and eastern China, in Anhui, Guangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, and Zhejiang.
It is a deciduous large shrub or small tree growing to 8 m tall. The leaves are oval, 8-15 cm long and 6-10 cm broad, oblique at the base, acute or rounded at the apex, with a wavy-toothed or shallowly lobed margin, and a short petiole 6-10 mm long; they are dark green and thinly hairy above, and grey beneath with dense grey hairs. The flowers are yellow, with four ribbon-shaped petals 15 mm long and four short stamens, and grow in clusters; flowering is in late winter to early spring. The fruit is a hard woody capsule 12 mm long, which splits explosively at the apex at maturity one year after pollination, ejecting the two shiny black seeds from the parent plant. |
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