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NUT BUSH

Hazelnut label

Common name: Hazelnut, cobnut, filbert

Botanical name: Corylus avellana

Family: Betulaceae (birch family)

Aspect & soil: Full sun; well-drained soil

Best climate: Cool

Habit: Deciduous shrub or small tree

Propagation: Whips or suckers

Difficulty: Medium

Hazelnuts are a delicious and nutritious cool-climate crop that literally falls to the ground in autumn.

The small, multi-branched shrubby trees are often grown as hedges in productive gardens and orchards. For commercial production, however, they are trained as small, single-trunked trees.

Hazelnuts require around 1200 chill hours in winter (hours accumulated below 7°C when the plants are dormant) and

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