I thought this was going to be a no-hazelnut year. It has been no- or low-hazelnut for three year straight as the trees that are familiar to me don't resist well to hot and dry summers. But I see more and more of what seems to be a different variety I've never notice growing up.
These other hazels are more like small trees and less like big bushes. The involucres are much bigger hidding the nuts from a passing gaze. Because of that, I only found them when something make them fall all at once like bad weather or the very nice road workers that made that much fall in the street next to mine.
I'm very exited! I will go back tomorrow if the street has been "cleaned" yet.
12 Comments
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 2d
Very nice! What part of the world is this? We don't have these here... too hot I think. Sometimes the city plants Turkish hazels but I've never seen any nuts.
pseudo@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 2d
Nord-East quarter of France.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2d
Very nice. I'm jealous but everywhere has its own unique mix so I'm sure we've got something here you don't.
pseudo@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 2d
No doubt about that. I'm sure you'll be the one making me jalous very soon.
Blurntout@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2d
What a haul!
pseudo@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 2d
I would have never guest they were that many before sorting them out. I only picked what was under one tree for a quater of hour and left so many on the ground. I really want to go back, especially since I've notice more of the same tree in the neighbourhood.
I want to share with friends and family and still have some for me, but as for exitement, I've already got enough to last until next year. I'm crazy happy about that haul!
dumples@piefed.social · 2 pts · 2d
Looks delicious.
poVoq@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2d
Huh? I only know Hazelnut as small trees... certainly climbed around in them a lot as a child. I think they only end up as bushes if you cut them back all the time, no?
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 2d
Maybe those are Turkish hazel rather then common hazel. Both are edible, but common hazel are larger and easier to crack and usually grow as shrubs.
poVoq@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2d
Hmm, after reading those links and the wikipedia entry on "shrub" I have come to the conclusion that it is definitly Common Hazel that I know, and it is rather that I had a different definition of shrub or bush. For me a small tree is still a tree if it has branches big enough to climb on, and a shrub or bush is something much less substancial 🤷
pseudo@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 2d
In French, common hazel would be discribed as an arbuste : a wood produce plant that doesn't reach as high as an arbre (en: tree) that could make many trunch and stays low looking like a bush or a single trunch reaching higher looking like a small size tree depending on how it is cut.
pseudo@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 2d
It does look like it. I have yet to look more closely but common hazel look like what I'm used to and turkish hazel look like those tree I would never guest to be hazel. Thank you.