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Originally Posted by beccabunga
Do you mean wych hazel, or hazel?
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OP evidently has hazel (Corylus), not witch hazel (Hamamelis). Witch hazel got the common name hazel because its twigs were used for dowsing like hazel. As it happens, their leaves have a similar shape, but then so do many others. But otherwise they are neither closely related nor especially similar. The only corkscrew varieties I've come across are (true) hazel and willow.