ABSTRACT
This chapter provides information on the uses, folk medicine, chemistry, germplasm, distribution, ecology, cultivation, harvesting, yields, energy, and biotic factors of Giant or Lambert's Filbert. Widely cultivated for the nuts in Europe; used as roasted or salted nuts, or as flavoring in confections and pastries. Sometimes naturalized, and of some interest as an ornamental, especially the red-leaved form, found in parks in the Caucasus. This species is considered the progenitor in Europe from which most cultivated filberts have been developed: C. avellana is more often called the cobnut. The species and its cultivars and hybrids are reported to be good producers. Fungi known to attack this filbert include: Mycosphaerella puntiformis, Phyllactinia corylea, and Sphaeragnmonia carpinea.
