Wild hazelnuts
Lanzhou wild hazelnuts are mainly produced in Lanzhou's Jianshanzi, Genting Mountain, Shuangzui Mountain, Yuzhong Xinglong Mountain and other primeval forests, every autumn there are many people to the mountains to pick, and then get to the market to sell, hazelnuts are known as the "king of nuts" because of their rich nutrition, hazelnuts belong to wild shrubs, hazelnut fruit, divided into two kinds of hazelnuts, hazelnuts. Flat hazelnut flat round, thick skin smooth appearance, sweet nuts; Hazelnuts are conical in shape, with thin skin and fine hairs, and the nuts are mellow and fragrant.
Hazelnut trees are deciduous shrubs with a height of 2 to 5 meters; The bark is dark grey or greyish brown; The branches are grayish brown and hairless; The twigs are yellowish brown and covered with long soft hairs, and the lower parts are densely haired. The leaves are broadly ovate, rectangular or inverted ovate, 6–12 cm long and 4–9 cm wide, apex sharply pointed or caudal, basal heart-shaped, with irregular coarse serrations at the edges, shallow fissures or absent in the middle above, sparsely hairy or almost hairless above, short soft hairs below, dense hairs along the veins, and about 7 pairs of lateral veins; The petiole is slender, 1–3 cm long, sparsely covered with long soft hairs and short soft hairs. 2-4 male inflorescences are arranged in a total shape; The bracts are densely covered with short white soft hairs. Fruit solitary or 2-6 clusters, 3-6 cm long; The buds are tubular, shrunk in the upper part of the nut, 2-3 times longer than the fruit, densely covered with yellow bristles and white short soft hairs, the upper part is shallowly lobed, lobed lanceolate; The peduncle is stout , 1.5–2 cm long , densely covered with short , yellow hairs. The nuts are spherical in shape, about 1.5 cm long, with small apexes at the top and densely covered with white hairs. The flowering period is from late March to mid-to-late April, and the nut ripening period is from late August to early September.
Wild hazelnut fruit