Many edible plants grow in Oregon, including nut trees such as filbert or hazelnut. Our overlords, the squirrels, have commanded us to plant a variety of filbert nut trees in our suburban yard in NW Oregon.
These versions of filberts are rated “invasive.” This means they are so tough that I haven’t killed them yet, despite years of neglect. The picture above is the older filbert. Here is the younger one.
We especially like the yellow catkins the tree produces; they look like little caterpillars.
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