Spike Winterhazel (Corylopsis spicata)

coh · May 2, 2013

Anyone growing these? If so, how about sharing some photos? I have found only a couple of references to them on this forum, so I'm guessing they're not too common.

This one is a reclamation project that I acquired for almost nothing last summer. The owner got frustrated with it after many of the trunks suffered serious dieback the previous winter. I struggled to keep the plant healthy last summer, the foliage looked terrible. Repotting this spring revealed most of the upper roots had rotted.

This is certainly not a refined bonsai, it's going to need a lot of work and possibly will be planted in the ground to regain strength. But I thought the flowering display looked good regardless. I've never seen one in bloom before (except in photos). Has a very nice fragrance which reminds me a bit of southern magnolia.

Please share photos and any experience you have growing these!

Chris

coh · May 2, 2016

Update on this specimen. I've let it grow pretty wild for the past 2 years, with some wiring and minimal thinning. Thing has gotten pretty tall (over 40", extends out of the picture) but the trunks remain thin. I think one more year of growth and then it needs to be cut way back so I can really start developing some structure in the trunks. Once I remove the blooms (anyone care to guess how many? I'll keep a count as I remove them) I'll get in and maybe thin out the trunks a bit, as there are too many of them.

No one responded 3 years ago, so I guess no one else is growing them? Really beautiful blooms, and fragrant as well.

Steve Kudela · May 2, 2016

coh said:
Update on this specimen. I've let it grow pretty wild for the past 2 years, with some wiring and minimal thinning. Thing has gotten pretty tall (over 40", extends out of the picture) but the trunks remain thin. I think one more year of growth and then it needs to be cut way back so I can really start developing some structure in the trunks. Once I remove the blooms (anyone care to guess how many? I'll keep a count as I remove them) I'll get in and maybe thin out the trunks a bit, as there are too many of them.

No one responded 3 years ago, so I guess no one else is growing them? Really beautiful blooms, and fragrant as well.

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Beautiful Coh.............how about pics of trunk and roots.

0soyoung · May 2, 2016

coh said:
Anyone growing these?

Kitora no do (Italy/Austria)

Shima · May 3, 2016

I got one from Bill V. years ago and it did ok for a few years. The best one I've ever seen is in Wolfgang Puck's garden. The leaves are amazing!

sorce · May 3, 2016

Very pretty!

Looks like a nice chunkaclump to work with too!

Sorce

coh · May 3, 2016

Steve Kudela said:
Beautiful Coh.............how about pics of trunk and roots.

It's just a bunch of tall, skinny trunk-branches underneath all those flowers. I have to selectively remove and then develop the form. I may repot after removing the flower clusters, if so I'll try to get a pic or two. My recollection is that there isn't really any kind of nebari.

Chris

coh · May 3, 2016

0soyoung said:
Kitora no do (Italy/Austria)

Thanks, found one clump there I like, though it might be the other type of corylopsis based on the size of the flower clusters.

coh · May 3, 2016

Michael Hagedorn has/had one that he showed on his blog a few years ago, I don't recall seeing any updates. It would be nice if mine had this kind of base on it, but I don't think so.

JudyB · May 3, 2016

Interesting plant, the flowers remind me of hops.

armetisius · May 3, 2016

Never seen this species except in photos.
Looks really cool to me. Love those flowers too.

reddog · May 3, 2016

Here is another Winterhazel from a Michael Hagedorn Seasonal class.

coh · May 4, 2016

reddog said:
Here is another Winterhazel from a Michael Hagedorn Seasonal class.

Thanks for that. Do you know if he still has the clump in the previous photo?

reddog · May 4, 2016

coh said:
Thanks for that. Do you know if he still has the clump in the previous photo?

Yes he does. He was working to develop the two middle trunks. If I remember correctly the original trunks of the clump did not make it before he purchased it. I also believe it was imported and purchased a number of years ago.

SouthernMaple · Mar 23, 2022

coh said:
Anyone growing these? If so, how about sharing some photos? I have found only a couple of references to them on this forum, so I'm guessing they're not too common.

This one is a reclamation project that I acquired for almost nothing last summer. The owner got frustrated with it after many of the trunks suffered serious dieback the previous winter. I struggled to keep the plant healthy last summer, the foliage looked terrible. Repotting this spring revealed most of the upper roots had rotted.

This is certainly not a refined bonsai, it's going to need a lot of work and possibly will be planted in the ground to regain strength. But I thought the flowering display looked good regardless. I've never seen one in bloom before (except in photos). Has a very nice fragrance which reminds me a bit of southern magnolia.

Please share photos and any experience you have growing these!

Chris

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I am working on a set I got through Mr Maple who imported some from Japan, ill be clumping them together, but they are really young. I also got a much older tree from a friend in the Atlanta club, its already a decent sized clump but it needs some work and has a dead center trunk and needs to be repotted as it has turface in the root ball. Was told by a friend to repot after flowers drop so I have a few more weeks. If you still have yours I would like to know whatever you have on it.

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