Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Fagales > Betulaceae > Corylus > Corylus maximaCorylus maxima (giant filbert)Synonyms: Corylus arborescens (heterotypic); Corylus atropurpurea; Corylus avellana var. alba; Corylus avellana var. purpurea; Corylus avellana var. rubra; Corylus avellana var. tubulosa; Corylus avellana var. viminalis; Corylus balcana; Corylus balcana f. atropurpurea; Corylus intermedia; Corylus maxima f. atropurpurea; Corylus maxima f. purpurea; Corylus maxima var. alba; Corylus maxima var. atropurpurea; Corylus maxima var. purpurea; Corylus maxima var. rubra; Corylus purpurea; Corylus rubra; Corylus sativa; Corylus tubulosa; Corylus tubulosa var. atropurpurea; Corylus tubulosa var. colurna; Corylus tubulosa var. oblonga; Corylus tubulosa var. purpurea; Corylus tubulosa var. rubra; Lopima alba; Lopima amygdalacca; Lopima anglicana; Lopima atropurpurea; Lopima caesia; Lopima downtonensis; Lopima hempelii; Lopima hispanica; Lopima rubra; Lopima vittata Corylus maxima, the filbert, is a species of hazel native to southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia, from the Balkans to Ordu in Turkey. It is a deciduous shrub 6–10 m (20–33 ft) tall, with stems up to 20 cm (8 in) thick. The leaves are rounded, 5–12 cm long by 4–10 cm broad, with a coarsely double-serrated margin. The flowers are wind-pollinated catkins produced in late winter; the male (pollen) catkins are pale yellow, 5–10 cm long, while the female catkins are bright red and only 1–3 mm long. The fruit is a nut produced in clusters of 1–5 together; each nut is 1.5–2.5 cm long, fully enclosed in a 3–5 cm long, tubular involucre (husk). |
| Allergen Potential [1] | Medium-High |  | | Edible [2] | May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details. | | Flower Type [2] | Monoecious | | Leaf Type [2] | Deciduous | | Pollinators [2] | Wind | | Structure [2] | Shrub | | Usage [2] | The seed contains up to 65% of a non-drying oil, used in paints, cosmetics etc; The whole seed can be used to polish and oil wood; Very easy and effective;
Plants can be grown as a tall hedge; They need to be left untrimmed or only lightly trimmed if seed is required.
Wood - soft, easy to split, not very durable, beautifully veined. Used for inlay work, small items of furniture, hurdles, wattles, basketry, pea sticks etc; The twigs are used as dowsing rods by water diviners; The wood also yields a good quality charcoal, used by artists; | | | Height [2] | 20 feet (6 m) | | Width [2] | 16.4 feet (5 m) |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000) ♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 3Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 ♦ 5Influences of the feeding ecology on body mass and possible implications
for reproduction in the edible dormouse (Glis glis), Joanna Fietz, M. Pflug, W. Schlund, F. Tataruch, J Comp Physiol B (2005) 175: 4555 ♦ 6New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ database♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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