Catkins are a dense spike of unisexual flowers, most often found on wind-pollinated trees or shrubs. Willows, birches and oaks have them and so do hazelnut trees. Part of the reason that we ...

Using a long exposure to capture the drifts of pollen and a reflector to highlight the catkins, Valter took many shots of this hazel tree before the wind finally delivered his desired composition.

They are either shrubby or form small trees, but C. colurna is the only commonly grown hazel to form a trunk. Hazels are wind-pollinated. The male catkins are slender and long and full of pollen.

The corkscrew hazel is a great curiosity and immediately grabs attention, especially at this time of year, when the branches are bare and the catkins begin ... twisted-twig tree, is also used ...

We weren't that surprised When Paddy Brassil pointed it out to us For he had a weather eye for such things A hazel ... our tree, as if it were his own In early spring, he heralded its new catkins ...