ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the information on uses, folk medicine, chemistry, germplasm, distribution, ecol-ogy, cultivation, harvesting, yields, energy, and biotic factors of Chinese Filbert. Kernels of nuts edible, used for food, eaten raw, roasted, or in cookery, and as flavoring. Plants used for hybridizing, since they are trees relatively resistant to Eastern filbert blight. Reported from the China-Japan Center of Diversity, Chinese filbert, or cvs thereof, is reported to tolerate disease, drought, frost, heat, and slope. Some selections are heavy producers. Cultivated, along with its hybrids, in southern Michigan. Ranging from Warm Temperate Dry to Moist Forest Life Zones, Chinese filbert is reported to tolerate annual precipitation of 6.6 to 12.3 dm, annual temperature of 14.7 to 15.0°C, and pH of 4.9 to 6.8. Nuts harvested in fall as other filbert tree species. Treatment, drying, and storage methods similar to those used for other filberts and hazelnuts. Trees are relatively resistant to Eastern filbert blight.
