Corylus colurna. Turkish hazelnut. A friend of mine gave me a turkish hazelnut. A curious plant for most of us who are used to seeing normal hazelnuts. The turkish hazelnut makes a trunk and grows like an ordinary tree. It can grow up to 25 meters tall and looks very different to our european hazelnuts. Chances are that most of the hazelnuts you ate in your life came from this tree because turkey is the worldwide biggest producer of hazelnuts and they grow these trees.
I weeded all my malus sieversii trees and i lost quite a few to what i believe was a combination of deer, rabbit and rodent attacks. I think i lost between one fourth and one third of the 426 plants i grew from seed. I discovered some visually very amazing and different ones in two of the six seed batches. I singled out several unique ones that i planted in my polytunnel to grow them properly. I didn't have the time to protect the 426 as i would have liked to. All trees of the 4 other batches have basically green leaves. Here is one example. This is a very nice green leaved one. And another green leaved one. Already these two are different in leaf colour and shape. But i selected them from the batches where all had green leaves in order to be sure to have genetic diversity. I kept 18 seedlings in the polytunnel that contain some of every batch. The following ones are very special and unique and display many variations of red and green and even other colours. One seedling with nice
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