ABSTRACT
This chapter provides information on the uses, folk medicine, chemistry, germplasm, distribution, ecology, cultivation, harvesting, yields, energy, and biotic factors of Chinese Filbert. Plants are used for hybridizing, since they are trees relatively resistant to Eastern filbert blight. Trees begin to bear fruit in about 8 years, and then continue for a long time. Nuts are harvested in fall as other filbert tree species. Treatment, drying, and storage methods of nuts are similar to those used for other filberts and hazelnuts. Filbert trees are resistant to cold, heat, drought, and other hazardous conditions of the environment. Although no exact figures are available for this species, its selections and hybrids are said to be heavy producers. As a tall tree, Filbert produces better firewood than some of the bushy species of Corylus.
