Hamamelidaceae

Witch Hazel family

By: Art Leibovit and George Rogers

A small worldwide family of some 30 genera and 100 species.  Plants mostly trees and shrubs with alternate leaves. Leaves stipulate, often palmate.  Flowers small, often in dense heads, with sepals and no petals (or with no sepals and no petals);  anthers often with an elongated connective. Ovary with 2 chambers. Fruits woody capsules with 1 seed per locule. (Family data largely from SMI).

Plants listed in the manual include:

Liquidambar styraciflua

Loropetalum chinense