Ostryopsis davidiana

Hazel-hornbeam (unofficial name) is a member of the birch or Betulaceae family and is native to China. It is a small shrub reaching up to 5 m tall.

• Branches are gray, glabrous; branchlets brown, striate, densely pubescent.
• Leaves are simple, alternate, hazel-like, ovate or elliptic-ovate, 2–6.5 cm long and 1.5–-5 cm across, scattered hairs above and paler, much more downy beneath; pinnately veined, slightly pointed and double-toothed; petiole pubescent.
• Flowers are produced in early spring with separate male and female catkins. Staminate (male) catkins are 1–2 cm long, solitary. Pistillate (female) is globular, with long red-purplish bifid styles, produced at the end of the shoots in March.
• Involucre of fruit leafy, tubular, not membranous and bladder-like as in Ostrya, to which it is allied.