During this time the flowers hazel (Corylus avellana)!
Though the individual flowers are not spectacular, overall the effect is truly remarkable, and it seems that even the branches without leaves are covered with many features gold!
The core is not a true tree tends to have a shrubby growth, reaching heights modest, 3 to 4 meters, and only in rare cases reaches greater heights (up to 10 meters), assuming the demeanor of a tree.
Kernel prefers damp places, often in the shade of other trees, but it is a good mouth and you can find some 'everywhere, so much so that a species colonizing uncultivated fields and pastures.
The core is a monoecious plant: on the same tree we find that both male and female flowers.
During this time do not run many pollinating insects, but often the wind blows in return: so the kernel uses the wind as a means to disperse the pollen (pollen).
This explains the lack of bright colors and fragrances of flowers, that are needed in other cases just to attract insects such as bees or bumble bees, etc. ...
The catkins (hanging inflorescences) are the male flowers yellow;
everyone of them is formed by a central axis and many squamous bracts that protect the four stamens that contain underlying pollen.
Unlike flowers visited by pollinators, where the pollen is usually viscous and sticky, this is dry and dusty, and is produced in larger amounts, as much of it going missing.
In addition, the flowers are laid on thin twigs, so as to be shaken by the slightest breath of wind.
If you try to shake a stick you will get out of a stone flower, a cloud of yellow pollen!
The female flowers, located further upstream of the branch than the male ones, are tiny: they are in the form of buds, which protrude from the filament of red-purple.
The filaments are the red stigmas, each one of them is covered with very fine hairs capable of capturing the pollen when the flower is fertilized, it develops into the brown that we all have tasted.
One important role of this tree in an ecosystem is like a food source: the hazelnut eat jays, nutcrackers, insects, squirrels, rats, mice and many other creatures-yet even certain species of beetles lay their eggs in this fruit, making it an integral part of their cycle life!
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