Hazelnuts, American and beaked (Corylus americana and Corylus cornuta) – Limited availability

Full sun to part shade. Zone 4.

 

Prefer well-drained, loamy soil.

 

Medium to fast growing, native, multiple-stemmed shrubs or small trees growing from 6-12 feet tall and often forming a dense thicket. Hazels have quite ornamental catkins through the winter that fill out and color up in early spring. The small nuts can be eaten and are often quite tasty, but this plant is best considered as a wildlife habitat and food plant that does well as a creek side, water garden, or riparian buffer plant.

Two plants of the same type required for pollination. (American Hazelnut and Beaked Hazelnut DO NOT pollinate each other.)

 

Shrub border, living fence, riparian buffer species.

 

Thick-shelled nuts with small, sweet kernels. Nuts are sweeter and softer in milk stage. Native to North America.

 

‘Beaked Hazelnut‘, Corylus cornuta – A thicket-forming native plant that produces edible ½ inch nuts.

‘American Filbert‘, Corylus americana – A clump-forming, large, native shrub with small edible nuts. 3 Available

‘Beaked EH Select Hazelnut’ – Corylus cornuta

‘Badgersett Hybrid ‘Hazelnut‘

‘Eta Hazelnut’

Hybrid Hazelunt’

‘Mark Shepherd Hybrid”

Yamhill Hazelnut’

 

$22.00/1 gal., $32.00/3 gal.