Hazelnut

Buy More Save More! Hazelnuts are a delicious, nutritious, calorically dense nut crop borne on rugged, adaptable, medium-size shrubs. Hazelnuts have been a prized and highly sought-after food source - both for people and wildlife - wherever they're found, since time immemorial.  All seedlings are shipped dormant as bare roots. These are first year seedlings in the range of 1' tall. Seedling Hazelnut: Silver Run (Corylus avellana x americana) Seed source: Silver Run Nursery SRN's description: Hybrid Hazelnut (Corylus avellana x americana): a large category includes a wide range of crosses of Corylus species. We hand-harvest ripe nuts in September from a university grove planted in 1994 with selections from Oregon State University’s ongoing Hazelnut breeding program for eastern filbert blight resistance and kernel size. Most US commercial hazelnuts come from the Pacific Northwest. At that time, OSU cultivated 20 selections of Native Hazelnuts and European Filberts with two named cultiv