HAZEL Bark Cut

HAZEL BARK, Botanical name: Corylus avellana l. is used as Medicinal Herbal remedy for Natural Healing in Home medicine, Homeopathic medicine and Naturopathic medicine. Never replace your regular medicine with a herbal medicine! These are suggested for quick use and for mild symptoms until you can get to the doctor!

Botanical name:  Corylus avellana l

Common Names:     Hazel, Common filbert, European Filbert, Harry Lauders Walking Stick, Corkscrew Hazel, Hazelnut

Habitat:     Mixed broad-leaved woodlands, up to 1200m, on many subsoils, though preferring chalky, fertile, deep soil.

Plant Description:    A tall, broad bush, sometimes from a short bole.Height: 5-7 m, shrubby, sometimes to 12m as a canopy tree.Diameter: 10-20 cm.Virtually throughout Europe except inland Scandinavia, Southern Iberia and Balkans, east to Caucasus.
In Britain, native to all parts except the Shetlands, and a major component of the natural woodland in many areas.
The nuts are edible and rich in oil, though the variety usually found in cultivation in Britain is Corylus maxima, or Cobnut. The tree is often regarded as an understory shrub, but does not flower and fruit without sunlight, so is really a canopy tree of woodland edge and clearings.
Leaves: Alternate, to 10 x 10 cm, orbicular or obovate, cordate base, sharp, triangular, unequal teeth; harshly hairy, deep green above, softly white-haired on veins beneath. Petiole stout, densely glandular-pubescent, 1.5 cm.
Shoots: Pale brown, covered in long, stiff hairs with swollen tips (glandular). Bud ovoid, smooth.
Bark: Shiny grey-brown, soon raised in small curling strips.
Flowers: Male catkins brownish-yellow in autumn, opening pale yellow, to 5 cm long, in December to late April in different years and places, mostly mid-February. Female flowers brown ovoids 3-5 mm with bright deep red styles exserted 2 mm a few days after pollen of same tree is shed.
Fruit: Nuts, 1-4 together, compressed ovoid, 1.5-2 cm long, whitish green ripening pale pink-brown, in green involucre of two bracts overlapped, 1cm long with teeth 3-5mm deep, sparse long white hairs.

Plant Part/s Used Traditionally:    Fruits, Bark and Leaves

Plant Part/s We are Selling in this Listing:  BARK Cut
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Packaging:  Paper envelope PAP 22 / BS EN 26590-1 for nutritional purposes. Thus, the herbs are kept in the best possible way - no contact with light and moisture, with the ability to breathe through the paper.

Country of Origin:  BULGARIA

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