Flower Notes:
Yellow (Yellow to orange-reddish ribbon-like (strap-like) flowers that appear in February and March)
Foliage Notes:
Bronze (Spring leaves emerge bronze); Green (Summer foliage is a medium to dark green); Yellow (Spectacular yellow fall foliage)
Fruit Notes:
Green (Green-yellow; not ornamentally important)
Soil Notes:
Tolerant of most soils, including clay soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Thickish (compared to Hamamelis virginiana) leaves (2-5" long) are narrow toward a small cuneate to truncate base, blade is often unequal at base (that is, oblique like Ulmus), 4-6 pairs of veins. May be glaucous below. Leaf margin is coarsely sinuate-dentate. Grayish-brown buds are naked and tomentose. Stems are slightly pubescent (not as smooth as H. virginiana).
