Definitions for hamamelis virginiana
hamamelis vir·gini·ana

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1. Virginian witch hazel, Hamamelis virginiananoun

   common shrub of eastern North America having small yellow flowers after the leaves have fallen

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1. hamamelis virginiana

   Hamamelis virginiana, commonly known as American witch-hazel, is a species of flowering plant in the witch-hazel family. It is a deciduous shrub or small tree native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia, Canada west to Minnesota, and south to central Florida to eastern Texas. The plant produces bright yellow flowers in autumn and small fruit capsules. It is typically used for medicinal purposes, particularly in skin care for its astringent properties.

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1. Hamamelis virginiana

   Hamamelis virginiana is a species of witch-hazel native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to Minnesota, and south to central Florida to eastern Texas. It is a small, deciduous tree growing up to 6 m tall, often with a dense cluster of stems from its base. The bark is light brown, smooth, scaly, inner bark reddish purple. The branchlets are pubescent at first, later smooth, light orange brown, marked with occasional white dots, finally dark or reddish brown. The foliage buds are acute, slightly falcate, downy, light brown. The leaves are oval, 3.7–16.7 cm long and 2.5–13 cm broad, oblique at the base, acute or rounded at the apex, with a wavy-toothed or shallowly lobed margin, and a short, stout petiole 6–15 mm long; the midrib is more or less hairy, stout, with six to seven pairs of primary veins. The young leaves open involute, covered with stellate rusty down; when full grown, they are dark green above, and paler beneath. In fall, they turn yellow with rusty spots. The leaf stipules are lanceolate, acute; they fall soon after the leaf expands. The flowers are pale to bright yellow, rarely orange or reddish, with four ribbon-shaped petals 10–20 mm long and four short stamens, and grow in clusters; flowering begins in about mid-fall and continues until late fall. The flower calyx is deeply four-parted, very downy, orange brown within, imbricate in bud, persistent, cohering with the base of the ovary. Two or three bractlets appear at base. The fruit is a hard woody capsule 10–14 mm long, which splits explosively at the apex at maturity one year after pollination, ejecting the two shiny black seeds up to 10 m distant from the parent plant. It can be distinguished from the related Hamamelis vernalis by its flowering in fall, not winter.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hamamelis virginiana in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hamamelis virginiana in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

References

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