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common hazel
Corylus avellana
Corylus avellana, the common hazel, is a species of hazel native to Europe and western Asia, from the British Isles south to Iberia, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, north to central Scandinavia, and east to the central Ural Mountains, the Caucasus, and northwestern Iran. It is an important component of the hedgerows that were the traditional field boundaries in lowland England. The wood was traditionally grown as coppice, the poles cut being used for wattle-and-daub building and...
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.430
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.1168
Maria Sibylla Merian — Der rupsen begin, voedzel en wonderbaare verandering (1712)
Maria Sibylla Merian · 1717 · p.339
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.433
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.286
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.432
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.431
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.285
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 54491.