CORYLUS avellana - Fruit varieties
Fruit Hazel
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:: Betulaceae
:: CORYLUS
:: avellana
:: 'Geant de Halle', 'Merveille de Bolwiller', 'Nottingham', 'Rouge de Zeller', Webb's Prize Cobb'
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Main asset
Native shrub with edible fruits, hosting an important auxiliary fauna. It is widely used in hedgerows.
Shrub with multiple trunks forming a tuft of 10-12 branches up to 3-4 m. The leaves are deciduous, heart-shaped toothed with a tip. Male catkins of 6 cm, yellowish, appear in February-March ; female flowers spikes are erected.
The hazelnut is an edible fruit. It contains a single seed, the almond. It is protected by an involucre before maturity (bracts).
Fruit varieties:
- 'Geant de Halle' or 'Merveille de Bolwiller' : very hardy, late flowering, adapted to cold regions. Fruiting in September, large round fruit.
- 'Nottingham': very productive variety with small elongated fruits, very thin skin easy to break.
- 'Rouge de Zeller': purple young leaves becoming dark green. Good fruit.
- 'Webb's Prize Cobb': large fruit, very productive.
- Uses: Natural hedges, Orchard
Global caracteristics:
- Type of foliage: deciduous
- Habit: bushy
- Height: 4 m x 3.50 m (13 ft x 11.5 ft)
- Growth: medium to fast
- Flowering period: January to March
- Époque de fructification : September-October
Shape and colours:
- Couleur du bois : beige
- Foliage shape: heart shaped
- Foliage colour: light green
- Foliage colour in autumn: orange yellow
- Flowers shape: catkins
- Flowers colour: cream yellow
- Forme des fruits : egg-shell
- Couleur des fruits : brown
Plantation:
- Exposure: sun, part-shade
- Hardiness: - 30 °C (-22 °F - USDA zone 4b)