Corylus avellana 'Contorta' ~ Contorted Filbert, Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick Size:6 GALLON Farfugium japonicum foliage

Farfugium japonicum foliage

Small non-showy but attractive umbels of purplish-red flowers bloom in spring followed by red samaras

Leafy upright flowering stems host loose clusters of vibrant highly fragrant purple flowers with rounded lobes bloom from late spring into summer

Egao Corkscrew

Corylus avellana 'Contorta' ~ Contorted Filbert, Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick Size:6 GALLON Farfugium japonicum foliageContorted Filbert is a multi trunked deciduous shrub with a rounded habit and distinctive corkscrew branches. The small serrated green leaves are also twisted and turn an undistinguished yellow in fall. The showy pale yellow male flowers bloom on catkins in late winter into spring before the leaves come in. Grows best in rich, moist, well drained soils. Contorted Filbert does not produce nuts and has good resistance to filbert blight. Type: Shrub