Question: Hello Arthur. This is in the Town Forest of Amesbury. Is it Beaked or American Hazelnut? The branchlets seem to …
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Question
Hello Arthur. This is in the Town Forest of Amesbury. Is it Beaked or American Hazelnut? The branchlets seem to have a few stipitate glands, but the catkins seem to be sessile. At other times of the year i have only seen the Beaked Hazelnut fruit.
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Dear chaffeemonell, good morning. The plant in the photographs is Corylus cornuta (beaked hazelnut). Corylus americana would have abundant, stalked, red glands on the branchlets. Examine this image (and even the petioles have the stipitate glands: https://newfs.s3.amazonaws.com/taxon-images-1000s1000/Betulaceae/corylus-americana-fl-ahaines.jpg). Best wishes.
