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Hazelnuts: An Emerging Crop for the Northeast

Excepted from Horticultural News Spring, 2013

Hazelnuts are small to large deciduous shrubs native to temperate regions of Europe, North America, and Asia. The European species, Corylus avellana, has the largest
nuts and is grown commercially in production orchards in Oregon, where it is pruned to grow as a single-trunk tree.