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Corylus avellana avellana

(Corylus avellana avellana)

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Description

Common hazel is typically a shrub reaching 3?8 m tall, but can reach 15 m. The leaves are deciduous, rounded, 6?12 cm long and across, softly hairy on both surfaces, and with a double-serrate margin. The flowers are produced very early in spring, before the leaves, and are monoecious with single-sex wind-pollinated catkins. Male catkins are pale yellow and 5?12 cm long, while female catkins are very small and largely concealed in the buds with only the bright red 1?3 mm long styles visible. The fruit is a nut, produced in clusters of one to five together, each nut held in a short leafy involucre ("husk") which encloses about three quarters of the nut. The nut is roughly spherical to oval, 15?20 mm long and 12?20 mm broad (larger, up to 25 mm long, in some cultivated selections), yellow-brown with a pale scar at the base. The nut falls out of the involucre when ripe, about 7?8 months after pollination

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Fagales
Family:Betulaceae
Genus:Corylus
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