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Previously featured on BPotD five years ago, Hamamelis mollis (or Chinese witchhazel) is one of the few dozen or so taxa in bloom in UBC Botanical Garden at the moment (this photograph is from a couple days ago).

This wide-spreading small tree (to ~8m tall) has a native range restricted to China (Hamamelis mollis in Flora of China), where it flowers in the months of April and May. In UBC Botanical Garden, however, it is reliably in full-flower by the end of January.

Additional photographs are available from the University of Connecticut"s Plant Database: Hamamelis mollis.