Plant
- Large shrub or small tree
- Up to 25' tall
- Also called hazelnut
Twig
- Alternate leaf arrangement
Leaf
- 2½-4½" long
- Simple, broadly ovate
- Coarsely, double-toothed edges
Flower
- Yellowish-green, pendulous catkins
Fruit
- ¾-1" long nut, in clusters of 2-5
- Shell held in a leafy, toothed bract (involucre)
Seed
- ½-¾" long
- Edible seed
- Oval to rounded, with an abrupt point at one end
- Enclosed in a chestnut-brown shell
