Common hazel
Corylus avellana
In Dutch: Hazelaar
ShrubsCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 4 to 8 m
- Spread
- 4 to 8 m
- Full grown after
- 5 to 10 years
- Sun
- Full sun to partial shade
- Soil
- Rich in nutrients and moisture-retentive, not waterlogged
- Water
- Average: ideally soil that stays moist
- Maintenance
- Low: it hardly needs pruning
- Flowers
- January to March, yellow catkins
- For bees
- Little: some pollen, January to March
- Hay fever
- Strongly allergenic, January to March
- Leaves
- Drop in autumn
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- No: the nuts are edible
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- About €1.49 to €2.59 each, 60-100 cm, bare-root
- Price, grown
- About €54 to €60 each, 150-200 cm, with a root ball or in a pot
Through the year
- Leaf
- April to November
- Flower
- January to March
- Fruit
- August to October