SC - Hazelnuts are Filberts

[Chris Stanifer]

- --- Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com> wrote:
> The recipe seems to call for both leaves _and_ nuts
> from a hazel tree,
> although, interestingly enough, it specifies that
> the leaves should be
> young (presumably tender and more mild in flavor,
> whatever that flavor
> may be) -- I wonder how you get nuts and young
> leaves at the same time
> if you only have one tree, unless you simply go for
> the smaller leaves
> from the current year's growth.

Now that makes sense.  Hazelnut would taste MUCH
better than Witch Hazel when mixed with almond....

If I'm not mistaken, the hazelnut bears on last year's
growth, rather than the current year's, so it seems
you could have both nuts and new leaves on the same
tree.  Of course, if you harvest all of the new
growth, you'll be ass-out for hazelnuts next year...

Or I'm wrong...

Balthazar of Blackmoor
(Still new to arborial research...)

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