Widespread in temperate warm areas of Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Botanical description
Habitus: medium shrub up to 5 m tall. It has twisted shoots.
Leaf: Leaves are twisted and broadly ovate with a serrated leaf margin, alternately arranged.
Flower: Flowers are unisexual and monoecious, the anthers form pendulous yellow catkins, the pistillate flowers are tiny, with a conspicuous red furrow on which the wind brings the pollen.
Fruit: The fruit is a nut.
Growth conditions / Cultivation / Care
Broadly resistant shrubs that thrive in ordinary garden soil. A modest species that thrives in sun and shade. No pruning is required, rejuvenate by cutting out the old shoots from the very centre of the bush, then sprout young shoots.
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Use / Function and landscape
Solitary plantings
gardens
Special use
Green urban areas
decorations
Reproduction
Woody cuttings. Usually does not produce fertile seed, but if sown, would revert to a basic species.
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