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| | Hazel Crest Illinois |
 | | The botanical name is Corylus, and is placed in the family Corylaceae, though some botanists include this family within the Betulaceae. |
 | | They have simple, rounded leaves with double-serrate margins.The flowers are produced very early in spring before the leaves, and are monoecious, with single-sex catkins, the male pale yellow and 5-12 cm long, the female very small and largely concealed in the buds, with onlythe bright red 1-3 mm long styles visible. |
 | | The Turkish Hazel (C.colurna) is widely cultivated as an ornamental tree in Europe and North America; this species does not conform to the typicalstereotype of hazels as being shrubs, instead being a large tree to 35 m tall and with a single straight, stout, trunk up to 1.5m in diameter. |
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