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    NUT BUSH

    Feb 12, 2020 4 minutes
    Words Jennifer Stackhouse

    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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