Hazel
Widely distributed in Europe and South-west Asia, the hazel is found in woods, thickets, and hedgerows; It can grow to 12m but is usually shorter at 6m.
Crown: Usually a broad bush, sometimes with a short trunk;
Bark: Smooth and shiny grey-brown, with horizontal rows of pores;
Shoots: Pale brown, covered with long swollen-tipped (glandular) hairs;
Buds: Smooth, blunt, and egg-shaped, changing from brown to green;
Leaves: Rounded with a pointed tip and double-toothed margins, up to 10 x 10cm, borne on hairy stalks. Hairy and deep green above, they turn brown and finally yellow;
Male flowers: Brownish-yellow catkins that appear in autumn, becoming yellow and longer (5cm) by Spring;
Female flowers and fruit: Small brown buds with protruding crimson stigmas develop into clusters of 1 - 4 nuts, each partly enclosed in a toothed green husk. The nuts chamge from whitish-green to pale pink-brown, and finally brown by autumn;
Uses: The nuts are edible. The strong and flexible wood is used for hurdles, pea and bean sticks, hoops etc, and formerly for wattle and daub building. Also used to make walking sticks, and water divining rods.
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- Definition: hazel from Online Medical Dictionary
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- Trees for Life - Species profile: Hazel
- Corylus avellana. Hazel is an important understorey tree in the Caledonian Forest, providing nuts for squirrels and other rodents, and it also supports a rare lichen community.
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Hazel is most commonly seen as a shrub
because of its lack of a main trunk. Hazel woodlands are usually managed by regular
cutting known as coppicing so that each hazel sends up a large number of near vertical
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