The nuts inside are white and have a faint fragrance. Hazelnut is nearly spherical in shape. Hazelnut belongs to a kind of shrub or small tree, and it grows mostly in shrubs on shady slopes in mountainous areas. Born in shady thickets in mountainous areas at an altitude of 200- 1000m, it has strong cold tolerance and likes humid climate. It likes light, and sufficient light can promote its growth, development and fruit.
In the wild hazelnut forest, the cluster with high yield, large fruit and no pests and diseases is selected as the seed mother tree, and the hazelnut with large grain, full kernel and no pests and diseases is selected for sowing. The germination ability of hazelnut seeds is maintained 1 year. Sowing time is suitable in spring, usually in the middle and late April.
Morphological characteristics of hazelnut
Shrubs or small trees, 1-7 meters high; Bark gray; Branches dark gray, glabrous, branchlets yellow-brown, densely pubescent and sparsely villous, without or with spiny glands.
The outline of the leaf is rectangular or broadly obovate, with a length of 4-13cm and a width of 2.5-10cm. The top of the leaf is concave or truncated, with a triangular tip in the center and a heart-shaped base, sometimes with unequal sides. The edge has irregular double serrations, and it has shallow cracks above the middle. When it is young, it is hairless above and sparsely pubescent below.