Taxon: Corylus chinensis Franch.

Common names:

• Chinese filbert   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• Chinese hazel   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• hua zhen   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• chinesische Hasel   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Krussmann)
  
• Human food: nut   (fide L Edible Pl; Handb Nuts)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for European filbert   (fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for Turkish filbert   (fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Gene sources: potential for growth habit in filbert   ("for transferring nonsuckering trait" fide J Amer Soc Hort Sci 125:495. 2000)
  
• Gene sources: secondary genetic relative of European filbert   (based on crossability with Corylus avellana fide J Amer Soc Hort Sci 125:493. 2000)
  
• Gene sources: secondary genetic relative of Turkish filbert   (based on crossability with Corylus colurna fide J Amer Soc Hort Sci 125:493. 2000)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Gansu, Guizhou, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan [s.w.], Yunnan [n.w.]

• also cultivated

References:

• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Duke, J. A. 1989. Handbook of Nuts. CRC Press.
• Erdogan, V. & S. A. Mehlenbacher. 2000. Interspecific hybridization in hazelnut (Corylus). J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 125:489–497.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage.
• Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 1998. World checklist and bibliography of Fagales.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kasapligil, B. 1963. Corylus colurna L. and its varieties. J. Calif. Hort. Soc. 24:101–103. [= C. colurna var. chinensis (Franch.) Burkill].
• Kasapligil, B. 1972. A bibliography on Corylus (Betulaceae) with annotations. Rep. (Annual) N. Nut Grower's Assoc. 63:158. [= C. colurna var. chinensis (Franch.) Burkill].
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Molnar, T. J. 2011. Chapter 2. Corylus. In: Kole, C., ed., Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, forest trees. 15–48.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs.
• Thompson, M. M. et al. 1996. Hazelnuts. In: Janick, J. & J. N. Moore, eds., Fruit breeding, 3 vols. 3:125–184.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Corylus chinensis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Corylus chinensis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Corylus chinensis.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Corylus colurna var. chinensis (Franch.) Burkill
  (previously associated with 16 accessions)
• (=) Corylus papyracea Hickel
  

Check other web resources for Corylus chinensis Franch.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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