I'm selling over 600 + kinds of seeds ( and also live plants during the warmer months ) so check my other auctions . 


You are bidding on 10 EVERGREEN WITCH HAZEL SEEDS - Distylium racemosum .


See my 30+ other witch hazel cultivar seeds listed . Please note : most cultivars only produce a few seeds a year on a mature tree which is why I only have a few listed for each one . Get them while you can . 


Also known as the Isu Tree .


Distylium racemosum seeds can take 2 to 3 months to germinate .

Virtually unknown, unidentifiable, unheralded and unloved, except to the cadre of collectors who desire one of every plant—are evergreen members of the Hamamelidaceae witch hazel family, the species sporting small apetalous red-maroon flowers from the leaf axils in late winter-early spring, positioned among blue-green to lustrous dark green foliage.


Although growth rate is slow, it can grow up to 3m in height. It is a hermaphrodite plant that buds leaves in January, starts flowering in March to April (spring) and matures with ripe seeds in June all the way to August.


It has dark-to-blue-green leaves that can grow up to 1.5 inches wide and 2.75 inches long.


cold hardy to Zone 6

 

Medicinal use : 

None known

Other uses : 

The ashes of the wood are used in glazing porcelain. Wood - hard, fine-grained, dark brown. A very valuable wood, it is used for small articles, musical instruments etc.


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