Hamamelis × intermedia Rehder
Witchazel, witch hazel
Hamamelis × intermedia hybrids are crosses between Japanese witch hazel (H. japonica) and Chinese witch hazel (H. mollis).
Plants: Decidious shrubs are 12–20′ (3.7–6.1 m) tall, and loosely branched and rather disorderly in appearance.
Leaves: Broad, oval, to 6″ (15 cm).
Flowers: Witch hazel flowers don’t look like any other flower I’ve ever seen. The four petals are long, fairly uniform in width, curved both along their length and alone their axis. The curved edges are also wavy. The net effect is that the flower looks like it just got electrocuted, or to use a more common description, spiderlike. This cultivar’s flowers are yellow or coppery red-orange. They often have a pleasant scent. They are abundant, and appear early, from late January to March.
Fruits: Nondescript, two-halved, dehiscent capsules.
Online References:
11/1/2008 · Pepperell, Massachusetts 
3/29/2011 · Tom and Susan’s, Pepperell, Massachusetts · ≈ 2½ × 2″ (6.9 × 5.5 cm) 
ID is uncertain 
3/8/2012 · Tom and Susan’s, Pepperell, Massachusetts · ≈ 8 × 5″ (19 × 13 cm) 
2/17/2012 · Tom and Susan’s, Pepperell, Massachusetts · ≈ 4 × 6″ (10 × 15 cm) 
2/17/2012 · Tom and Susan’s, Pepperell, Massachusetts · ≈ 4 × 3½″ (10 × 9.2 cm) 
3/29/2011 · Tom and Susan’s, Pepperell, Massachusetts · ≈ 3 × 2″ (8.3 × 5.5 cm) ID is uncertain 
2/17/2012 · Tom and Susan’s, Pepperell, Massachusetts · ≈ 6 × 4″ (15 × 10 cm) 
3/8/2012 · Tom and Susan’s, Pepperell, Massachusetts · ≈ 4½ × 3″ (11 × 7.9 cm) 
| Kingdom | Plantae | Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin) |
| Subkingdom | Tracheobionta | Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients |
| Division | Magnoliophyta | Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms |
| Class | Magnoliopsida | Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves |
| Subclass | Hamamelidae | Wind-pollinated shrubs |
| Order | Hamamelidales | Witch hazels and related plants |
| Family | Hamamelidaceae | Witch-hazels |
| Genus | Hamamelis | Witch-hazel; name means “hooked fruit” |
| Species | intermedia | Intermediate, indicating an observation that a species was probably considered as being halfway or partway between two others with regard to some particular characteristic, e.g. tall, short, and “intermediate” |
Hamamelis × intermedia description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.
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