| Description | A native shrub that produces an edible nut. |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | (kor-ih-lus)(kor-NU-tuh) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Shrubs Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 4 |
| Sunlight | full, part shade, shade |
| Moisture | aveage, moist |
| Soil & Site | average, moist |
| Flowers | stalkless catkins, not ornamental, blooms before the leaves |
| Fruit | round edible nut encased in a beaked tubular green, bristly husk, a good food source for many wildlife |
| Leaves | green, coarsely double-toothed, simple, alterante, yellow in the fall |
| Roots | fiborous |
| Dimensions | greater than 12 feet, the plants we picked from were more on the 4-5 foot range |
| Propagation | seeds, may need some form of stratification, seeds that float are usually empty |
| Misc Facts | Cornuta means horn. Hence the common name Beaked Hazelnut. |
| Author's Notes | I grew up eating Beaked Hazel Nuts that grew on my parents property in Superior, Wisconsin USA (zone 4). We would put the husks on the roof to dry them. This, we thought, made them easier to extract the seeds? |
| Notes & Reference | #63-How to recognize Shrubs (William Carey Grimm), #191-Minnesota Wild Flowers (www.minnesotawildflowers.info), #243-Native Plants (www.nativeplantspnw.com) |
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