Talk:Hazel

Tree?
Is the hazel a tree? --Yak 00:13, Feb 20, 2004 (UTC)

Yes, some are, notably Turkish hazel (Corylus colurna), which can reach over 30m tall with a trunk over 1.2m diameter - MPF 23:33, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Duplication with Common Hazel
There is considerable overlap and duplication with Common Hazel. There is unique content here about the Hazel. I am therefore proposing that the content about the plant, its description and taxonomy be merged here and the text about the nut be moved back to Hazelnut. The Common Hazel page would then become a disambiguation page. Any views ? (This text is also posted on the Common Hazel page) Velela 20:20, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * This makes sense; I wanted to see the relationship between the English word and the Dutch word. The link on the left under Nederlands takes me to the equivalent of "Hazel" (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corylus) in general... there is a specific page on "Common Hazel" which goes to "Hazelaar" http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazelaar_(plant). If the Dutch wiki separates these two, then it would make sense for the English one to as well.


 * Or, if arguments are stronger that there should be one page, shouldn't other languages follow? 80.101.162.155 (talk) 12:38, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Color???
I knew it was a plant, but isn't it a color? -- BaconBoy914 (talk) 11:11, 2008 April 21
 * It is an eye colour; see Eye color – Hazel. — Who R you? (talk) 02:09, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

where can you plant them?
Does anyone know if you can plant hazel trees in the California high desert? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.119.151.233 (talk) 04:57, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
 * This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Hazel article. I suggest you seek gardening advice elsewhere. Ypna (talk) 00:34, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Mythology
That's really interesting about the mythology of the tree and the fish. The Russians have a similar tale of a golden fish imparting wisdom to those who catch it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.119.151.233 (talk) 04:59, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Microscopic mount of hazel pollen grains
This is easily done. Just place a bit of pollen directly from a hazel catkin (not sure, likely the common hazel growing wild here in Western/Central Europe) on a microscope slide, add one or two drops of water, and then place the cover slip on top, press slightly and place the mount under the microscope, starting with the lowest magnification. Focus on a grain or groups of grains, and increase magnification accordingly, and refocus. Use backlight, I have a reflector mirror set up and a useful condenser to adjust, with natural light or a LED flash light as light source. 600 X magnification was sufficient to recognize the pores clearly with my vintage microscope, it's beautiful. Birch pollen are similar but lack the granular structure of the exine. The diameter of the hazel pollen grains is about 20-30µm. (Osterluzei (talk) 14:13, 24 February 2014 (UTC))
 * This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Hazel article. Ypna (talk) 00:34, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

WP:BIAS
Minor cleanup is needed to get away from the article's current focus on rural Britain and Harry Lauder when this tree & its fruit have apparently been central to Anatolian/Turkish agriculture for millennia but that goes entirely unmentioned on this page. Inter alia, Corylus avellana says Turkey is the largest hazelnut producer in the world by a wide margin, specifically its Giresun Province in Pontus, which has been so central to the production of the stuff—despite apparently being at the very fringes of its distribution—that a large part of the world's words for hazel and hazelnut ultimately derive from the ancient Greek for Pontic nut. Even moreso that they were apparently so common that they make up Iberian languages' words for meatballs and a large part of Africa's words for long guns, derived from Arabic use of 'hazelnut' for crossbow and sling pellets and early bullets. — Llywelyn II   22:27, 31 March 2024 (UTC)