“Wych” also derives from the same linguistic root as “wicker” and may refer to the plant’s bending stems. “Wych” is an old word for “water.” It probably refers to the English tree’s tendency to grow in wet places. More credible theories center on the word wych, an old English sound-alike of “witch.” The witch-hazel found by early English settlers in northeastern North America likely reminded them of the wych-elm (Ulmus glabra), a widespread English tree, and of English hazels (genus Corylus), which are close relatives and look-alikes of our native American hazelnuts. Dowsers, also known as water-witchers, sometimes choose forked sections of witch-hazel as divining rods. The most colorful (and perhaps least reliable) is that the plant, flowering around or after Halloween and with its crooked growth habit, gangly yellow blossoms, and explosive seedpods, was historically associated with witches. There are several stories explaining how witch-hazel got its name. Regarding genuine health benefits, the jury remains out. Old-time pharmacists made witch-hazel lotion by pulverizing young twigs and roots and steeping them in alcohol. Oddly, there’s little or no whiff of the final, astringent product in the plant itself. Witch-hazel essence, which also turns up in toothpaste and facial cleansers, is distilled from the twigs. The liniment, still sold in drugstores, wafts a distinctive medicinal smell that inspires faith (possibly misguided) in its curative powers. When I was a child, my mother treated major body aches in the household with witch-hazel rubdowns. Sweetgum trees, ranging from Dixie northward to the coast of Connecticut, also hail from the same off-beat family. Most of its kin live in Asia, although a second, smaller kind of witch-hazel occurs in the American South. Then they begin developing in earnest.īotanically, witch-hazel is a lone wolf, at least in New York state. So the embryos are archived until spring. The plant is virtually shut down physiologically and in no position to manufacture fully developed offspring. An odd thing about witch-hazel embryos is that after they’re created, they’re put on hold. Studies have shown that for witch-hazel, Cupid’s errands are carried out by a variety of cold-weather fliers, among them fungus gnats, parasitic wasps, and hoverflies.Īs in all so-called higher plants, pollen delivers the sperm that fertilize eggs cradled in ovaries.
Certainly with nothing else in bloom, witch-hazel has little trouble attracting the attention of whatever insects are active. Explore and find hidden truths and fascinating insights into the people of GideonĮnter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.Why blossom in autumn or winter when pollinators are scarce? It’s an open question.Find peace and tranquility in the gorgeous world.
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