Hazelnut tree (UEB Contracted)

By: Rnib Bookshare

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Synopsis: In this image of a hazelnut tree, the trunk stems from the bottom centre of the page and the leafy branches are just above it. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the right way up. There is a picture of a hazelnut leaf in the top left and a picture of a hazelnut in the top right of the page. The leaf stem is to the top right of the leaf itself. The nut is similarly positioned. For scale there is a 'stick man' representing the height of an adult person in the bottom right of the page. This is a small tree sometimes growing to little more than a bush. Its delicious nuts are eaten by people and animals, particularly squirrels. The hazelnut was commonly coppiced (the main trunk cut down a few feet from the ground) which resulted in the growth of long, thin and pliable branches. These were then used for many things from basket making to forming the woven skeleton of wattle and daub walls in mediaeval times. The hazelnut rarely lives longer than 70 years.