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Purple leaf ornamnetal hazelnut & green leaf type |
Ornamental hazelnut clusters |
High yield potential of new hybrid hazelnuts |
Ilex x Red Beauty |
Eastern filbert blight lesion - the reason we do not grow hazlenuts commercially in the eastern US |
Dr. Funk and Dr. Tom Molnar |
7 year old hybrid seedlings undergoing evaluation |
Breeding for Eastern Filbert Blight resistance |
Freshly harvested hazelnuts drying |
Evaluating hazelnuts for disease |
hazelnut stigmas ready for hand pollinating |
New hazelnut selections with large nuts and EFB resistance |
Hazelnut catkins |
hazlenut pruned to a single trunk |
Advanced generation Hybrid Dogwoods |
Purple leaf ornamental hazelnut with fall color |
Advanced generation holly hybrids |
Some hybrid selections release the nuts from the husk on maturity for easy harvesting |
We screen thousands of hazelnuts for resistance to EFB This picture shows an infected young plant |
