ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the information on uses, folk medicine, chemistry, germplasm, distribution, ecol-ogy, cultivation, harvesting, yields, energy, and biotic factors of Beaked Filbert. Nuts used for human food and wildlife food; plants used for erosion control and cover and for basket splints. The nuts, which are the commerical seeds, may be sown, stratified, or stored. Great quantities of hazelnuts are gathered each year for local home-use in northeastern and northwestern US and Canada. When planted on poorly drained soils, the shrub grows poorly, is subject to winter injury, and bears few nuts. Most filberts offered for sale by nurserymen have been propagated by layering and are on their own roots. Some nurserymen propagated their stock on Turkish filbert roots that do not produce suckers. Beaked filberts or hazelnuts tend to sucker, the suckers should be removed promptly and the plant trained to a single stem.
