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 The hadas must have three leaves growing in one row. 

 Summary 

 Rav Kahana: Even two [in one row] and one [in the row beneath] is kosher.

 Rav Acha brei d’Rava would seek out specifically such hadassim because it came from Rav Kahana’s mouth (we don’t pasken this way). 

 Mar bar Ameimar to Rav Ashi: My father would call such a hadas, a hadas shoteh (Shoteh means something that’s out of ordinary). 

 Beraisa: If most of its leaves fell out but a minority remained, it is kosher, on condition that the braided effect remained.

 Challenge: This is a self-contradictory statement. If most of its leaves fell out, how can it remain braided?

 Abayye: It is possible in the case of Egyptian Hadassim which have seven leaves in each row.

 Abayye: We learn from this beraisa that Egyptian hadassim can be used, despite the fact that it has an attached name (11.2). The Torah doesn’t tell us to take hadassim but eitz avos, these are eitz avos as well.

 Beraisa: If the hadassim are dried out, but three stems with [three] fresh leaves remain, it is kosher.

 Rav Chisda: This fresh row must be at the top of these stems.

We learned in the mishna (26.4): “If the tip is broken off, it is possul”. 

 Ulla bar Chinena: If the tip broke off and a little bulb grew at the tip, it is kosher.

 Rabbi Yirmiyah inquired: If the tip broke off before yom tov and the bulb grew on yom tov, what is the law? Does dichui (once it was possul when yom tov came in, it can no longer become kosher) apply to mitzvos or only to korbanos?