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Old 11-03-2009, 04:52 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Corkscrew witch hazel

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beccabunga;833057 Wrote:
Do you mean wych hazel, or hazel?

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.


Oi hev some corkscrew willers, any'un waarnt a cutting, tergither?

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