Authors: C. Stace, R. van der Meijden (ed.) & I. de Kort (ed.)
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Scientific name:

Corylus colurna

Vernacular name:

Hazel, Turkish


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Turkish Hazel

Scientific name: Corylus colurna L.

Diagnostic features
Tree to 26m with single trunk.
Leaves narrower, more acuminate and more lobed, lighter or brighter green, and with longer petiole than in Corylus avellana.
Male catkins up to 12cm.
Nuts up to 2cm, usually distinctly flattened, with thicker shell than in Corylus avellana, with girdle of deeply laciniate bracts much longer than nut and becoming strongly reflexed whendry.

Chromosome number: (2n=28).

Habitat
Introduced-survivor.

Distribution
Grown in plantation on dunes in South Lancs for many years, now being planted as street tree in England; Southeast Europe and Southwest Asia.

This species is keyed out on Page 1715 in the Text Key.

Corylus colurna (Hazel, Turkish)
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