Eastern filbert blight (EFB), caused by the fungus Anisogramma anomala, remains one of the primary challenges for hazelnut cultivation, particularly affecting European hazelnut (Corylus avellana) ...

The hazel is a native wild tree, as at home in gardens as it is in hedgerows and woodlands. It is at its most obvious now, in flower along roadways and woodland margins all over the country. Its pale ...

Our native hazel (Corylus avellana) has golden catkins and snuff-brown hazelnuts enclosed in a brown-paper collar. Imagine instead pink catkins followed by claret-coloured nuts enclosed in a much ...

A few weeks ago, in the early days of January, the first catkins appeared on wild hazel. Normally, these are not seen until late January or early February. For them to appear in the first week of the ...