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  • From: Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] beaked hazelnuts
  • Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:41:55 -0400


I don't have experience growing them but I owned one once. Right after I planted a row of hazelnuts I discovered another hazel growing on the opposite side of the yard. It was next to a building and heavily shaded by maple trees. It was a tall spindly thing (due to the shade) but it produced some small nuts. It died out a year or two after I noticed it.
The thing I remember most is the fine hairs on the husks were barbed and would stick into your skin. The first time I picked a cluster of husks to see what the nuts inside were like, I discovered hundreds of fuzz like hairs stuck into my fingers. I had to pluck them out. Some penetrated far enough to cause very slight pain.

Steve in the Adirondacks

Ernest Plutko wrote:
Anyone have experience growing beaked hazelnuts?




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