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"The Hazel Branch" from Grimms' Fairy Tales claims that hazel branches offer the greatest protection from snakes and other things that creep on the earth. In the Grimm tale "Cinderella", a hazel branch is planted by the protagonist at her mother's grave and grows into a tree that is the site where the girl's wishes are granted by birds. [19]
Corylus americana, the American hazelnut [3] or American hazel, [4] is a species of deciduous shrub in the genus Corylus, native to the eastern and central United States and extreme southern parts of eastern and central Canada.
Corylus avellana, the common hazel, is a species of flowering plant in the birch family Betulaceae. The shrubs usually grow 3–8 metres (10–26 feet) tall. The nut is round, in contrast to the longer filbert nut. Common hazel is native to Europe and Western Asia. The species is mainly cultivated for its nuts.
[14] [15] Hamamelis water, also called white hazel or witch hazel water prepared from a steam-distillation process using leaves, bark or twigs, is a clear, colorless liquid containing 13–15% ethanol having the odor of the essential oil, but with no tannins present. [14] [15] Essential oil components, such as carvacrol and eugenol, may be ...
Corylus cornuta var. cornuta – Eastern beaked hazel. Small shrub, 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) tall; [7] 'beak' longer, 3 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) or more. Occurs from 100–500 m (330–1,640 ft) throughout its range, and up to 1,000 m (3,300 ft) in Alberta. [7] Corylus cornuta var. californica – Western beaked hazel or California hazelnut.
Making the tree quite durable to urban conditions and helps maintain a symmetrical crown which landscape architects love so much. [ 2 ] The flowers bloom in early spring before the leaves, and are unisexual , with single-sex catkins ; the male pale yellow and 5–10 cm long, the female very small and largely concealed in the buds, with only the ...
It is a deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 7 m (23 ft) tall, with stems up to 20 cm (8 in) thick grey bark.The leaves are rounded, 4–13 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 –5 in) long and 2.5–10 cm (1–4 in) broad, with a coarsely double-serrated to somewhat lobed margin and an often truncated apex.
Its main use in the United States is as large filler (along with peanuts as small filler) in most containers of mixed nuts. Filberts are sometimes grown in orchards for the nuts, but much less often than the common hazel. [3] [4] The purple-leaved cultivar C. maxima 'Purpurea' is a popular ornamental shrub in gardens. [5]